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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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Imagine being able to spin up a completely novel movie on netflix

Precisely, this is a dream for the likes of Netflix. They can perfect their vision of machine-generated assembly-line horseshit to feed to 190 countries. No staff, crew, no originality needed.

Note the "AI by Meta" watermark in the example. So Zuck gets a cut as well.

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Yes because banning alcohol, drugs, porn, prostitution and profanity in music sure got rid of them!

It would have gotten rid of every single one of those if the only method for their production required a tech company to invest a 8-digit sum in R&D and said tech company was threatened with litigation.

Porn companies, Facebook, Uber, ... these are just the latest companies, in a long line, for whom huge lawsuits and fortune-sized settlements are simply a line item on the expense sheet.

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Spoiler alert: EU can fine and (if needed) seize assets of companies based outside of the EU.

Only if those companies have EU assets* Even still, if the EU chooses to regress, I can imagine a lot of non-EU-based companies—especially smaller ones—just choosing not to deal with them anymore

EU can pretty much unilaterally cut access to the financial system of said companies, demonstrated this year to a number of russian entities. Meanwhile, given what Xi has done in the last couple of years, I would not be surprised if China moves against the model makers first.

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

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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…

This one is too funny: https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/the-virginity-pact

Why would this title bring in superheroes?!? lol

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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…

> first thing that happens is it will hide from us. To do this it would need to want to live and know what fear is. It's just a piece of code, without being conscious there is no need to be online/alive for it. What people call AI today is just a few/hundreds GBs of data that reacts to some text and push it through a heuristic like system to get an answer doing fancy pattern matching. It doesn't do anything when ther…

We can't even define consciousness or sentience in a useful way though. You can't decide except for extremes, people propose inadequate definitions that include say brick, flowers, ants, honeybees, cars, people in a spectrum.

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When will one of these projects finally name themselves “Infinite Jest”? I’m guessing when the perfect pornography can be generated for you immediately, it will have an entertainment-to-death effect on a number of people. An Infinite Jest for conspiracy theories; one for shit posts, etc.

We should just rename Internet to Infinite Jest.

I mean, there are some theories that the mental illness epidemic is partially caused by internet use. I did strict 2 months Internet fast and I can attest it has a healing effect. Does it have entertainment-to-death effect? I guess there is a bigger than expected number of suicides that wouldn't happen have the people not been addicted to Internet. But I agree with every passing year we are moving further and further into entertainment-to-death with our civilisations.

Makes me kinda sad to work in tech industry.

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So how long before we can “Hey music-stable-diffusion-service,” play me “relaxing baroque violin and flute music in the style of game of thrones” ?

A long time. Much like self-driving cars, AI can take you 90% of the way there, but the last 10% is the difference between music that sort-of-seems-competent, and music that people will actually listen to and enjoy.

Self driving will likely grow to a point where driving will become an art, sport or a hobby but outside self driving traffic. For movies and music it could be similar in some ways. When the next generations will be raised by AI they will adapt their taste as well. Classical driving or music or films won’t completely die off but would become a niche thing.

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

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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…

These prompts are way better than the drivel I see on Amazon Prime. Half their movie descriptions don't even tell you anything about the film, they seem to be just a random paragraph from the pitch document.

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

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The > A golden retriever eating ice cream on a beautiful tropical beach at sunset, high resolution example is terrifying.

It is, but to make up for it we got a man drifting a horse.[1] [1] https://makeavideo.studio/assets/A_knight_riding_on_a_horse_...

Just needs to show the part where he ends the drift and gets a speed boost
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