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Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs

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Re: Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs

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A hammer can be used to hit nails or bash skulls. There are billions of hammers.

This is more like a magic wand in terms of its effectiveness . I think that’s the difference.

Since we were talking about hammers, a more apt comparison might be a nail gun. Vastly more efficient than hammering nails by hand when constructing e.g. a roof truss, but you still need carpenters.

Re: Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs

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Just run all key frames through stable diffusion and it should be quite good.

>Just Adding the word 'just' doesnt make it any easier. Something I've noticed is that people who have never done something themselves and are telling someone to do an difficult task, will use: "Just" in-front of it. This is particularly relevant in tech.

It's very likely the comment you replied to said it in a joking sense

Re: Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs

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Just run all key frames through stable diffusion and it should be quite good.

>Just Adding the word 'just' doesnt make it any easier. Something I've noticed is that people who have never done something themselves and are telling someone to do an difficult task, will use: "Just" in-front of it. This is particularly relevant in tech.

Depends if it's already been done before, in which case "just" would then have been just used quite justly.

Re: Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs

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Which is a positive turn of events. Intellectual property as a concept needs to go.

It's a one-way street with AI companies though, they are against IP protection for training data but support IP protection for the product of that training. Read the TOS/license of nearly any big model and it's clear the creator considers it and its output to be their IP and they will fight to restrict how you can use it for commercial purposes or training competing models, because those being a free-for-all would ge…

Sure. And I wouldn't be surprised if e.g. Micr.. OpenAI can manage to brib.. convince a judge to make government to enforce this by force.

But how ML is at least currently developing, other megacorporations and universities are only a year or so behind OpenAI etc, and publishing their weights and models. Of course disregarding training set IP because otherwise keeping up would be impossible.

If the media and advertising megacorporations manage to get a ban on training on IP material, Micr.. OpenAI would be a huge benefactor, as they could afford some weird licensing deal on everybody's data and the actual open efforts would be extinguished.

Luckily US hegemony is fading and many other powers DGAF anymore what a US judge says. Or a WTO judge, because USA kind of destroyed WTO themselves already.

Re: Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs

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Anybody else completely apathetic towards all of this? I'm so fed up with the morally-bankrupt Sam Altman and Open AI as a whole that by the time another one of these "Hey, check out the latest blah blah AI blah!!" gets posted, my first (and often lasting) impression "meh".

Re: Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs

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I know it’s probably using < 1000x compute of the real Sora, but “pretty good” is stretching it

Just run all key frames through stable diffusion and it should be quite good.

I don't think there's such a thing as key frames here, just frames. And if you run SD through every frame, the output will be janky because SD doesn't know about temporal coherence.

Re: Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs

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AI developers don't care about intellectual property.

Which is a positive turn of events. Intellectual property as a concept needs to go.

Why is that the case? The way its implemented is no longer fit for today's world, but as a concept? That's a whole other story.

Re: Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs

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>Just Adding the word 'just' doesnt make it any easier. Something I've noticed is that people who have never done something themselves and are telling someone to do an difficult task, will use: "Just" in-front of it. This is particularly relevant in tech.

It's very likely the comment you replied to said it in a joking sense

It is extremely difficult to tell if the person is joking in a field full of people who think AI is some sort of magic.

Re: Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs

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AI developers don't care about intellectual property.

Which is a positive turn of events. Intellectual property as a concept needs to go.

No. AI firms are a good example of precisely why copyright was put in place.

Right now, AI is taking people's original works and rehashing them in a way that directly competes with the original work. Some AI firms (e.g. perplexity) just have their LLMs paraphrase the work lightly.

This is a problem because it drives original work out of business. Even setting aside matters of originality, artistic value, and AI being vapid slop:

Gen-AI is and will remain a derivative work that is reliant on original human-made work

ChatGPT is not going to do investigative journalism. If we let AI push all journalists into bankruptcy, the news just becomes an endless sewer of PR statements recycled into AI slop.

If you don't want Google's woke "diverse nazis" to push real news into bankruptcy, copyright is needed to stop them.

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