I hate this vacant technology tbh. Every video feels like distilled advert mindless slop.
There's still something off about the movements, faces and eyes. Gollum features.
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#252I wonder if they're going to license this to brands for heavily personalized advertisement. Imagine being able to see videos of yourself wearing clothes you're buying online before you actually place the order, instead of viewing them on a model. If they got the generation "live" enough, imagine walking past a mirror in a department store and seeing yourself in different clothes. Wild times.
The latter would feel like actual scifi to me.
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#253Earlier quoted context omitted.
I saw a famous actor-director (can't remember who, but an A-list guy) said it would be super valuable even if you only use it for establishing shots. Like you have an exterior shot of a cabin, the surrounding environment, etc — all generated. Then you jump inside which can be shot on a traditional set in a studio. Getting that establishing shot in real life might cost $30K to find a location, get the crew there, etc.…
Probably Ben Affleck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypURoMU3P3U
Wow. What an intelligent take. I would have never expected this from Ben Affleck. He seems extremely familiar with the technology and it's capabilities and limits.
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#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
But then you’re creating an incentive for the AI slop to become so realistic it is indistinguishable from actual video. Unless there some fundamental, technical way to distinguish the two, I wonder who would win?
there would need to be cameras that can cryptographically sign videos with trusted vendor keys, or perhaps there is some other solution.
This is what https://c2pa.org/ is for. I think some camera vendors already have support.
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#255I welcome a world where gullible people begin to doubt everything they see.
My friend, no man ever got rich betting against the infinitely deep well of human gullibility.
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#256One use that occurred to me is that fans will be able to "fix" some movies that dropped the ball. For example, I saw a lot of people criticizing "Wish" (2023, Disney) for being a good movie in the first half, and totally dropping the ball in the last half. I haven't seen it yet, but I'm wondering if fans will be able to evolve the source material in the future to get the best possible version of it. Maybe we will eve…
> (I'm ignoring copyright aspects, of course, because those are too boring :D) You must understand that infinite copyright is the author's right, and AI companies must be sued for 50 trillion dollars.
Come on. This is just a fun thought exercise. I'm not suggesting creating a startup around this.
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#257I don't know if it's just me or other people are feeling it as well. I don't enjoy videos anymore (unless live sports). I don't enjoy reading on my monitor anymore, I have been going back to physical books more often. I am in my early thirties. The point is that sora2 demo videos seemed impressive but I just didn't feel any real excitement. I am not sure who this is really helping.
that sounds like clinical depresion, I'd check with my endocrinologist to get blood work done
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#258Impressively high level of continuity. The only errors I could really call out are: 1/ 0m23s: The moon polo players begin with the red coat rider putting on a pair of gloves, but they are not wearing gloves in the left-vs-right charge-down. 2/ 1m05s: The dragon flies up the coast with the cliffs on one side, but then the close-up has the direction of flight reversed. Also, the person speaking seemingly has their back…
The whole pool the ducks are racing at is a completely different pool when Sam starts talking.
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#259It's obvious there is no way OpenAI can keep videos generated by this within their ecosystem. Everything will be fake, nothing real. We are going to have to change the way we interact with video. While it's obviously possible to fake videos today, it takes work by the creator and takes skill. Now it will take no skill so the obvious consequence of this is we can't believe anything we see. The worst part is we are alr…
It's not that obvious. iOS is pretty secure, if they keep the social network and cameo feature limited to that there might not be good ways to export videos off the platform onto others beyond pointing a camera at the tablet screen. And beyond there being lots of ways to watermark stuff to be detectable, nothing stops the device using its own camera to try and spot if it's being recorded. The bar can be raised quite high as long as you're willing to exclude any device that isn't an iPhone/iPad.
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#260There's something about the faces that looks completely off to me. I think it's the way the mouth and whole face moves when they talk.
Yeah, the faces aren't right, and impressive as it is I'm getting icky "uncanny valley" vibes from this.
CGI for fantasy stuff is unavoidable, but when it's stuff that could have been done by actors but is instead AI, then to me it just feels cheap and nasty - fake.