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Re: Sora 2

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Post by bnop »

echelon wrote: post #229

I'm a software engineer and hobbyist actor/director. My friends are in the film industry and are in IATSE and SAG-AFTRA. I've made photons-on-glass films for decades, and I frequently film stuff with my friends for festivals. I love this AI video technology. Here are some of the films my friends and I have been making with AI. These are not "prompted", but instead use a lot of hand animation, rotoscoping, and human v…

Taking the time and effort out of something is exactly what strips it of its beauty

Beauty is not just an “idea” that someone has and needs to get out onto a medium

It is a process and journey that a person undergoes to get said idea onto said medium

That journey often plays out very differently than the person expects. Things change, the art is different from the idea, and the person learns and grows

Our modern society is so obsessed with results, competition, and efficiency that we no longer see the truth: the journey is to be enjoyed, and from enjoying the journey, comes beauty

I encourage you to meditate on why our society is so sick and depressed right now, and extrapolate to how we got here, before assuming this will be a good thing for society

Re: Sora 2

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Post by some-guy »

the_duke wrote: post #273

I haven't seen comments regarding a big factor here: It seems like OpenAI is trying to turn Sora into a social network - TikTok but AI. The webapp is heavily geared towards consumption, with a feed as the entry point, liking and commenting for posts, and user profiles having a prominent role. The creation aspect seems about as important as on Instagram, TikTok etc - easily available, but not the primary focus. Genera…

My opinion is that unless there is some insane breakthrough in power efficiency with video generation, or if energy costs go down to zero, there is no way such a thing actually becomes profitable at the scale of scrolling TikTok. It is far more power efficient (and cheaper) to have people post their own content.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by cogman10 »

gorgoiler wrote: post #87

Impressively high level of continuity. The only errors I could really call out are: 1/ 0m23s: The moon polo players begin with the red coat rider putting on a pair of gloves, but they are not wearing gloves in the left-vs-right charge-down. 2/ 1m05s: The dragon flies up the coast with the cliffs on one side, but then the close-up has the direction of flight reversed. Also, the person speaking seemingly has their back…

The video was slam cut together to avoid continuity problems. There was a lot of fast camera motion and unconnected scenes.

Particularly bad was the snowmobile sequence. It was literally a different snowmobile in every cut.

The racing pool duck scene was a different pool in every shot.

About the only consistent thing was the faces that were spliced into the scenes.

I do not really see anything super significant in the demo. It looks like this suffers from all the same problems of AI generated video. They just hid it by avoiding more then 5 seconds in the same setting.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by cogman10 »

yoavm wrote: post #258
gorgoiler wrote: post #87

Impressively high level of continuity. The only errors I could really call out are: 1/ 0m23s: The moon polo players begin with the red coat rider putting on a pair of gloves, but they are not wearing gloves in the left-vs-right charge-down. 2/ 1m05s: The dragon flies up the coast with the cliffs on one side, but then the close-up has the direction of flight reversed. Also, the person speaking seemingly has their back…

The whole pool the ducks are racing at is a completely different pool when Sam starts talking.

The snowmobiles were different in each cut. The shape, color, and style of the lights were different.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by motoxpro »

echelon wrote: post #339
the_duke wrote: post #273

I haven't seen comments regarding a big factor here: It seems like OpenAI is trying to turn Sora into a social network - TikTok but AI. The webapp is heavily geared towards consumption, with a feed as the entry point, liking and commenting for posts, and user profiles having a prominent role. The creation aspect seems about as important as on Instagram, TikTok etc - easily available, but not the primary focus. Genera…

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…

People in this thread saying that this is the kind of content kids like should go on tiktok for a sec. This is not at all what young people watch, it's just bad content, and misunderstanding that feels out of touch.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by Havoc »

That sure seems to be getting close to something usable for movies...kinda.

Sam looks weirdly like Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer in some shots. I wonder whether there was dataset bleedover from that.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by wilg »

jrflowers wrote: post #350
wilg wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True, but our old technology like radios has been doing that for a long time too.

This is a good point. It is hard not to see this tiktok video of an unblinking man smiling at a soft focus sasquatch and think of Marconi’s first broadcast across the Atlantic. I challenge any man to look at this unsettling video of a dog astronaut and not compare it in his mind to the first integrated circuit, or alternating current.

That's not what I'm saying, I'm saying many technologies enable a slide into fascism, and not having AI until a couple years ago didn't seem to solve the problem.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by dom96 »

the_duke wrote: post #273

I haven't seen comments regarding a big factor here: It seems like OpenAI is trying to turn Sora into a social network - TikTok but AI. The webapp is heavily geared towards consumption, with a feed as the entry point, liking and commenting for posts, and user profiles having a prominent role. The creation aspect seems about as important as on Instagram, TikTok etc - easily available, but not the primary focus. Genera…

> Sora is not available in The United Kingdom yet

Well this is disappointing. I can't even watch your links.

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