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Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by malermeister »

chasing wrote: post #24

Yeah, you just can't let all media, all the cost and hard work of millions of photographers, animators, filmmakers, etc be completely consumed and devalued by one company just because it's a very cool technical trick. The more powerful these services become the more obvious that will be. What OpenAI does is amazing, but they obviously cannot be allowed to capture the value of every piece of media ever created — it'll…

The limitation is with capitalism, not with the technology. It's time we move on to post-scarcity communism, Star Trek style.

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Post by cboswel1 »

Who owns a person’s likeness? Now that we’re approaching text to video of a quality that could fool an average person, won’t this just open a whole new can of worms if the training models are replicating celebrities? The ambiguity around copyright when something on paper is in the style of seems to fall into an entirely separate category than making AI generated videos of actual people without their consent. Will people of note have to get a copyright of their likeness to fight its use in these models?

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Post by manuka »

thomastraum wrote: post #182

I am a CG artist and Director and this made me so sad. I am watching in horror and amazement. I am not anti AI at all, but being on the wrong side of efficiency, for the individual this is heartbreaking. its so much fun to make CG and create shots and the reason its hard (just like anything) makes it rewarding.

Why the terror? Your job will change a bit but won't be gone. You would guide the output and make prompts not with text but your own video CGI shorts to make things 100% to your liking and the AI will do the rest of the dirty work. You productivity will grow and quality of your work too. You would be able to make an AAA movie all by yourself on a laptop. Since everyone would be able to do the same, the fight for the imagination and inginuity in scripting and artists view would skyroket. :) IMHO

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Post by thepasswordis »

break_the_bank wrote: post #160

In less than a few hours Gemini 1.5 is old news. Sam is doing live demos on Twitter while Google just released a blog. Didn't think Google would be the first of the Facebook, Apple, Google and Microsoft to get disrupted.

The fact that SamA just seems to go off the cuff on twitter pretty frequently is such a breath of fresh air.

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Post by mempko »

hansonkd wrote: post #26

Countdown to when studios licensing this for "unlimited" episodes of your favorite series. There was Seinfeld "Nothing, Forever" AI parody, but once the models improve enough and are cheap enough to deploy, studios will license their content for real and just have endless seasons. Or even custom episodes. Imagine if every episode of a TV show was unique to the viewer.

That would not work because that's now how people work. People watch/play media to connect to others. How can you talk about anything to anyone or have any shared culture when other people will never see what you see?

Movies, books, games, are a collective culture, not an individualist one. I don't know about you, but when I like an experience, I want to share it with others.

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Post by Xirgil »

sschueller wrote: post #131
treesciencebot wrote: post #14

This is leaps and bounds beyond anything out there, including both public models like SVD 1.1 and Pika Labs' / Runway's models. Incredible.

Yes, but I am stuck in their (American) view of what is consider appropriate. Not what is legal, but what they determine to be OK to produce. Good luck generating anything similar to an 80s action movie. The violence and light nudity will prevent you from generating anything.

I suspect it's less about being puritanical about violence and nudity in and of themself, and more a blanket ban to make up for the inability to prevent the generation of actually controversial material (nude images of pop stars, violence against politicians, hate speech)

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Post by TulliusCicero »

minimaxir wrote: post #186
thepasswordis wrote: post #100

OpenAI demonstrating the size of their moat. How many multi-million-dollar funded startups did this just absolutely obsolete? This is so, so, so much better than every other generative video AI we've seen. Most of those were basically a still image with a very slowly moving background. This is not that. Sam is probably going to get his $7T if he keeps this up, and when he does everybody else will be locked out foreve…

> OpenAI demonstrating the size of their moat. How many multi-million-dollar funded startups did this just absolutely obsolete? For posterity since the term has been misused lately, having a very good product isn't a moat in the business sense. There's nothing stopping a competitor from creating a similar product (even if it's difficult), and there's nothing currently stopping OpenAI's users from switching from using…

Having a very good product can be a moat if it takes enormous resources and skill to create said product.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by thepasswordis »

torginus wrote: post #259

I wonder why the input is always text - can't it be text, as well as a low quality blender scene with a camera rig flying through space, a moodboard, sketches of the characters etc.?

My guess is because the models were all trained on text. You could do as you say, but I think it would go: blender video {gets described by an AI into text}-> text prompt -> video.
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