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Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Post by slhomme »

hugozap wrote: post #236
slhomme wrote: post #121

As an owner of a Video Production studio, this kind of tech is blowing my mind and makes me equally excited and scared. I can see how we could incorporate such tools in our workflows, and at the same time I'm worried it'll be used to spam the internet with thousands and thousands of souless generated videos, making it even harder to look through the noise. A fun related experiment, I thought it was fun to see what ki…

Is the generation happening in real time? I'm curious about the costs of running something like this.

Yes it's happening real time, so far it's been generated about 8k movies over the last 3 hours. The costs right now are roughly about $150 for the generated images (Stable Diffusion) and $30 for the generated texts (GPT-3).

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Post by trial2 »

permo-w wrote: post #240

I really don’t understand the fear people have about these things. have I missed something and everyone else was placing huge value in out of context videos and pictures? if you read “France declares war on Canada”, you’re not gonna believe it unless it’s coming from an extremely reputable source. so why would you trust a random unsourced video? the absolute worst thing that’s gonna happen is that video-based social…

have you ever had a loved one fall for a scam?

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Post by pkaye »

LambdaComplex wrote: post #202
ddalex wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps humanity would happily share the benefits of machine work and we can all spend idyllics lifes eating, laughing and loving while exploring the galaxy?

Great idea! Under the current system, the rich can do just that while everyone else literally starves to death :)

Then the rich will have no consumers.

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Post by hiidrew »

slhomme wrote: post #121

As an owner of a Video Production studio, this kind of tech is blowing my mind and makes me equally excited and scared. I can see how we could incorporate such tools in our workflows, and at the same time I'm worried it'll be used to spam the internet with thousands and thousands of souless generated videos, making it even harder to look through the noise. A fun related experiment, I thought it was fun to see what ki…

I think some refer to this as the dead internet theory, e.g. AI content creation becomes the majority of media on the internet instead of humans posting (may be wrong in my explanation but think that's the premise).

It's scary to think about it but seems plausible—like if someone can make an app with Tiktok-like ubiquity of only AI content. Although to your point I imagine there will be so much nonsensical noise that curating will become a useful skill, it is today but even more so.

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Post by permo-w »

chatterhead wrote: post #249
permo-w wrote: post #240

I really don’t understand the fear people have about these things. have I missed something and everyone else was placing huge value in out of context videos and pictures? if you read “France declares war on Canada”, you’re not gonna believe it unless it’s coming from an extremely reputable source. so why would you trust a random unsourced video? the absolute worst thing that’s gonna happen is that video-based social…

We are quickly approaching a point where these independently created AI systems will be wrangled together the same away protocols were to create a computer network and the AI that emerges will likely be able to create its own code, solve its own problems and generate its own recursive processes. Everything at a conscious level without the ability to self recognize. If AI ever does wake up; we'll never know - first th…

well perhaps that does sound like it might be an issue, but I’m talking more specifically about the societal consequences of video being made more like text

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Post by permo-w »

trial2 wrote: post #252
permo-w wrote: post #240

I really don’t understand the fear people have about these things. have I missed something and everyone else was placing huge value in out of context videos and pictures? if you read “France declares war on Canada”, you’re not gonna believe it unless it’s coming from an extremely reputable source. so why would you trust a random unsourced video? the absolute worst thing that’s gonna happen is that video-based social…

have you ever had a loved one fall for a scam?

there are always going to be gullible people. if you’ll believe a fake video, you’ll probably believe a written lie

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Post by macrolocal »

aero-glide2 wrote: post #103
bottlepalm wrote: post #14

I don’t want to think reality is a simulation, but wouldn’t our everyday experience being generated by a neural network be far far simpler to achieve than a universe of infinite minuscule atoms all interacting.. like ozcam’s razor is pointing towards our lives being a realistic dream. Like in 10 years you could plug this tech into high end VR and get a prompted reality dynamically generated that would be indistinguis…

Thought of the exact same thing, this seems plausible.

Ever wonder why you weren't born a medieval peasant?

Well, from the outside reality's perspective, it's helpful for people to spend the first few decades of their lives in an early 21st century simulation, just so they can gradually acclimate themselves to all this technology.

/folly

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Post by [deleted] »

anigbrowl wrote: post #244
mach1ne wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It may be that it's the deep learning tech which will never quite get there. GPT-3 has similar shortcomings in its mimicry. We're 95% there, I guess, but may never quite reach 100%.

Nah, the current issues are just because we're trying to do everything in one step. Because we've built tools that have so much of a stimulus-response approach, few efforts have been made toward interfaces that ask for clarification ('when you say X, do you mean XYZ or XXX?'). Image-to-image and tuning already addresses many of these issues; just as inpainting works really well, it won't be long before we have select…

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Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Post by consumer451 »

mjr00 wrote: post #205
consumer451 wrote: post #194

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Is it really the same though? A driving system which can only create a good outcome 90% of the time is not really useful as irl human safety is a factor. However, a creative system curated by a human could end up creating useful outputs, could it not?

Obviously different safety outcomes, but ultimately it's the same idea: unless you can hit that last 10%, it's essentially useless. You could pump out AI songs that are about as good as the 10,000 songs that get uploaded to Soundcloud every day, but nobody listens to those already. It's really only the best Something that can be further refined by humans is more interesting. There's people looking into AI-based sampl…

> Something that can be further refined by humans is more interesting.

Exactly, that is what I was trying to say. The way I look at it is that most people who have Ableton installed cannot create an amazing song. Now let's say they are able to prompt a Stable Diffusion Audio system with a prompt like kanye type beat with flute melody in the key of E.

The system might output 90% hot garbage, but it's easy to skip that within seconds of hearing it. So they clip and loop the good part, add whatever personal skills they do have, and upload that.

And wow, I just found out that OpenAI's Jukebox[0] was creating this stuff two years ago. This seems like the lowest hanging fruit to me, compared to visuals. Also could be extremely lucrative. I wonder if we are already listen to ML generated music and it's just not advertised?

[0] https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/ related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23032243

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