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Re: Sora: Creating video from text

#441

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

All those startups have been squeezed in the middle. Pika, Runway, etc might as well open source their models.

Or Meta will do it for them.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

#442

Does anyone know how to handle the depression/doom one feels with these updates? Yes, it's a great technical achievement, but I just worry for the future. We don't have good social safety nets, and we aren't close to UBI. It's difficult for me to see that happen unless something drastic changes. I'm also afraid of one company just having so much power. How does anyone compete?

All those videos made me so scared of what’s about to come in next few years. India is already a major market for perpetrators of misinformation and with major social media giants only paying lip service to our concerns, with western countries being their major focus, things portend to get even more darker for the poor, the disenfranchised in our side of the world.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

#443

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

I'm almost speechless. I've been keeping an eye on the text-to-video models, and if these example videos are truly indicative of the model, this is an order of magnitude better than anything currently available. In particular, looking at the video titled "Borneo wildlife on the Kinabatangan River" (number 7 in the third group), the accurate parallax of the tree stood out to me. I'm so curious to learn how this is wor…

The diffusion is almost certainly taking place over some sort of compressed latent, from the visual quirks of the output I suspect that the process of turning that latent into images goes latent -> nerf / splat -> image, not latent -> convolutional decoder -> image

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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> Prompt: Historical footage of California during the gold rush. this is the opposite of history

only if you consider "historical footage" to exclusively mean the "[original] historical footage [stored in archiving]" versus e.g. "historical[ly accurate] footage"

if "historical" is going to be used subjectively with no further qualifying statements then the meaning of "history" will be subjucated to the context it's being presented in, I don't see it's use here as contradictory

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

#446

Has anyone else noticed the leg swap in Tokyo video at 0:14. I guess we are past uncanny, but I do wonder if these small artifacts will always be present in generated content. Also begs the question, if more and more children are introduced to media from young age and they are fed more and more with generated content, will they be able to feel "uncanniness" or become completely blunt to it. There's definitely interes…

They swap multiple times lol. Not to mention it almost always looks like the feet are slightly sliding on the ground with every step.

I mean there are some impressive things there, but it looks like there's a long ways to go yet.

They shouldn't have played it into the close up of the face. The face is so dead and static looking.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

#447

Has anyone else noticed the leg swap in Tokyo video at 0:14. I guess we are past uncanny, but I do wonder if these small artifacts will always be present in generated content. Also begs the question, if more and more children are introduced to media from young age and they are fed more and more with generated content, will they be able to feel "uncanniness" or become completely blunt to it. There's definitely interes…

Yep! Glad I wasn't the only one that saw that. I have a feeling THEY didn't see it or they wouldn't have showcased it.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

#448

Does anyone know how to handle the depression/doom one feels with these updates? Yes, it's a great technical achievement, but I just worry for the future. We don't have good social safety nets, and we aren't close to UBI. It's difficult for me to see that happen unless something drastic changes. I'm also afraid of one company just having so much power. How does anyone compete?

I felt depressed after seeing this, so I had a long hug with my partner, and remembered the serenity prayer: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference."

If AI dystopia is coming, at least it's not here quite yet, so I'll try to enjoy my life today.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

#450

Does anyone know how to handle the depression/doom one feels with these updates? Yes, it's a great technical achievement, but I just worry for the future. We don't have good social safety nets, and we aren't close to UBI. It's difficult for me to see that happen unless something drastic changes. I'm also afraid of one company just having so much power. How does anyone compete?

This will just accelerate the realization in people that this earth can't give you true meaning. That comes from 'above'.
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