This makes me less excited about the future of video, not more. It's technically impressive, but all so very soulless. When everything fake feels real, will everything real feel fake?
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#422VFX artists are definitely feeling the AGI / considering other career paths today.
VFX artist and developer here, who's deep into this stuff, and it is really not there. It's an island of itself, barely controllable and barely usable with other media. They are just now getting around to generating alpha channels, with virtual none of the existing pipelines for any AI video or image generation tools to even incorporate and work with alpha channels. This is just one of several hundred aspects of inco…
"It really seriously appears as of no one at any of the AI video generation research teams has any professional media production experience, or even bothered too look at existing media production data standards,"
I had to chuckle at this. Because the arrogance of OAI et al will finally get them in the end when these projects continue to be negative NPV.
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#423full-on productisation effort -> no AGI in sight
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I would argue that we just get pickier and more sensitive to slop. When everyone can make a movie, the standard for a good movie will be higher. Many current Hollywood films wouldn’t make the cut. But maybe some kid in Nigeria makes the greatest film of all time.
By that logic, some kid in Nigeria could have written the greatest book of all time. At least by commonly accepted measures, that didn't happen.
Hard to interpret that comment as anything but racist. Chinua Achebe is widely considered one of the greatest modern novelists. He was 28 when he wrote Things Fall Apart.
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#426Earlier quoted context omitted.
I posit this is the real story. OpenAI did not stealthily release Sora 2 to the image and video ELO ranking leaderboards ahead of time as is now somewhat tradition. This model is probably designed to run fast and cheap as a social play. Emphasis on putting you and your friends into popular franchises and IPs. OpenAI probably has a totally different model for their Hollywood-grade VFX. One that's too expensive to offe…
Why would I want to watch any of this?
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#427This makes me less excited about the future of video, not more. It's technically impressive, but all so very soulless. When everything fake feels real, will everything real feel fake?
Truly wonder if there will be some kind of renaissance in the video making domain when all settles down and this becomes the new normal.
Tastes and preferences are dynamic. It will certainly happen.
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I can see that future generations are going to think that I'm boomer for preferring the performances of real actors instead of AI slop. The music industry already went through this with AutoTune and we know how that turned out.
I don't get the autotune argument. It's like saying we shouldn't be using electronic instruments because it's not real or we shouldn't use digital audio instruments because they're not real etc. It's just a way to get different kind of sound. It won't make you good tracks.
I think AI is starting to verge on making actual good music. The latest Suno release is wild.
An example here: https://v.redd.it/fqlqrgumo5rf1
I find this one interesting because Rap has classically been difficult for these models (I think because it's technically difficult to find the right rhythms and flow for a given set of lyrics).
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I'm optimistic about the Sora app! My hope is that it becomes much more whimsical and fun than TikTok because everyone on the app knows that all content is fake. Hopefully that means less rage-bait and more creative content, like OG YouTube. Nobody's going to get their news from Sora because it's literally 100% fake.
> it becomes much more whimsical and fun than TikTok because everyone on the app knows that all content is fake. Sounds about as plausible as "ironically taking heroin". > Nobody's going to get their news from Sora because it's literally 100% fake. I'm with Neal Stephenson ("Fall", in this case) on this prediction, although I really hope I'm wrong.
That said… does anyone have an invite code?
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People are doing cool things with it. Here’s one example: https://www.tiktok.com/@dreamrelicc Before AI, each video on this channel would have taken a large team with a Hollywood budget to create. In a few more years, one person may be able to turn their creative vision into a full-length movie.
I love the aesthetic in this person's videos, I just wish it wasn't on tiktok :(
The problem is, it isn't their aesthetic, it's a resynthesis of the aesthetic of someone else's work.