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

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Post by jonny_eh »

WheelsAtLarge wrote: post #261
maxov wrote: post #179

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I love this! But after trying it a few times I got this result :). So fascinating. https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/the-terminator Brings up the age-old question of how much the learning in these models is just memorization. Though in cases like these it’s hard to tell.

There are only so many stories to tell. The Terminator is a rehash of so many other previous stories. The real art is in putting it together so that it seems new and fresh and gets people exited about it. The Terminator 1920s style looks interesting.

If a story is a rehash of "many" stories, then it's actually a new story. Similar to how an "Airbnb but for dog walkers" isn't actually a ripoff of Airbnb, but is in fact an original idea.

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Post by permo-w »

rchaud wrote: post #304
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…

Think of the SEO blogspam from corporate sites that buried genuinely interesting hand-made websites on search results pages. That is what AI-generated video is going to do to YouTube and pretty soon, Netflix and all other other streaming services.

Netflix?

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Post by bottlepalm »

macrolocal wrote: post #257
aero-glide2 wrote: post #103

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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

That thought has crossed a lot of peoples minds especially after the Matrix.

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Post by kertoip_1 »

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…

> if you read “France declares war on Canada”, you’re not gonna believe it

A lie that is repeated a thousand times becomes truth. We are not talking about one out of place, weird news that would appear once on someone's newsfeed. We are talking about mass flooding.

> unless it’s coming from an extremely reputable source

It's 2022, no one is verifying sources

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Post by mikepurvis »

MichaelCollins wrote: post #110
mikepurvis wrote: post #61

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Absolutely, particularly if you see this as simply another tool in the belt, like how Jurassic Park's thirty year old special effects absolutely stand the test of time because of them being a convincing mix of early CGI and puppetry. It's not hard to imagine that this kind of thing could end up doing a lot of the heavy lifting for things like background scenes in the future, opening up the kind of stuff we saw in The…

The first Jurassic Park holds up unusually well. They used CGI for things they couldn't convincingly do any other way, and used practical effects for almost everything else. And for the most part they hid the CGI well, they took a lot of care to mix it up with close ups of practical effects, the way they framed the shots to direct audience attention, etc. I think in a lot of modern stuff they go too far. They now use…

Absolutely.

I remember listening to the DVD commentary track for X2 (from 2003), and loving that scene near the beginning where Nightcrawler is hiding out in a cathedral but losing control of his teleportation powers because he's being remotely controlled/possessed by the villain of the story. Bryan Singer talks on the track about how great it was to fling the character (can't remember if it it was actually Alan Cumming or a stuntman) from the rafters, and how much better and more weighty it looked to have a "real" shot and just have to remove wires/harnessing vs filming it as a blank canvas and having to insert the character digitally.

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Post by cercatrova »

j_m_b wrote: post #28

What I want to see is a model that can generate 3D models for use in applications such as Blender. It would provide a good starting point for someone with talent to make beautiful. Or just save people like me time for making games.

> 3D

Then you're in luck today as this was just submitted: DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33025446

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Post by mikepurvis »

whoooooo123 wrote: post #180
MichaelCollins wrote: post #110

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The first Jurassic Park holds up unusually well. They used CGI for things they couldn't convincingly do any other way, and used practical effects for almost everything else. And for the most part they hid the CGI well, they took a lot of care to mix it up with close ups of practical effects, the way they framed the shots to direct audience attention, etc. I think in a lot of modern stuff they go too far. They now use…

I can't stand it either. CGI excess has ruined movies. This video does a good job of explaining why, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY-zg8Oo8p4

Haha, why did I know this was going to be a Critical Drinker video.

For real though, I think the best CGI has always been when it's a light touch, providing only slight enhancements to an otherwise mostly-practical scene. And that's also when it's most invisible— so while superhero movies are obvious CGI-fests and can be clearly said to have been "ruined" by it, I think the most interesting modern CGI use is in lower-budget productions like TV shows, enabling the insertion of fantasy- or period-themed backdrops that would never be possible if you had to actually come up with all those props and extras in real life.

And I think to the extent that this is already happening, it's a lot harder to track because it's so much more subtle than the bombastic in-your-face effects of a Marvel movie showdown.

It would be interesting to see a revival of a show like Drive [0] as that was pretty ambitious and expensive for its time, but might be a lot more possible to do now.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_(2007_TV_series)

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

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Post by Yajirobe »

slhomme wrote: post #251
hugozap wrote: post #236

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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).

$180 in 3 hours?

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

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Post by permo-w »

kertoip_1 wrote: post #335
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…

> if you read “France declares war on Canada”, you’re not gonna believe it A lie that is repeated a thousand times becomes truth. We are not talking about one out of place, weird news that would appear once on someone's newsfeed. We are talking about mass flooding. > unless it’s coming from an extremely reputable source It's 2022, no one is verifying sources

there’s mass flooding of text too. some people fall for it, some people don’t. the being of it in a different medium makes little change.

>verifying sources

I’m talking about if your news came from Reuters or the BBC compared to coming from realnews247.io or a facebook post. the same applies. if you’ll believe some text on the BBC, you’ll believe a video from there, and if you’ll believe the words of AnonTruther on facebook, then you’ll believe their videos too. this makes no difference

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