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Re: Veo

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Living in northern Sweden I see the northern lights multiple times a year. I have never seen them pale or otherwise not colorful. Green and reds always. That is to my naked eye. Photographs do look more saturated, but the difference isn't as large as this comment thread make it out to be.

In the upper peninsula of michigan I have only seen grey.

That is the same latitude as Paris though, not very north at all.

Re: Veo

#492
How many billions and tons of water is wasted on this abomination and copyright theft?

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#493

I think the thing that most perturbs me about AI is that it takes jobs that involve manipulating colours, light, shade and space directly and turns them into essay writing exercises. As a dyslexic I fucking hate writing essays. 40% of architects are dyslexic. I wouldn't be surprised if that was similar or higher in other creative industries such as filmmaking and illustration. Coincidentally 40% of the prison populat…

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Re: Veo

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> It's critical to bring technologies like Veo to the world responsibly. Videos created by Veo are watermarked using SynthID, our cutting-edge tool for watermarking and identifying AI-generated content

And we're supposed to believe that this is resilient against prompt injection?

How do you prevent state actors from creating "proof" that their enemies engaged in acts of war, and they are only engaging in "self-defense"?

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> It's critical to bring technologies like Veo to the world responsibly. Videos created by Veo are watermarked using SynthID, our cutting-edge tool for watermarking and identifying AI-generated content And we're supposed to believe that this is resilient against prompt injection? How do you prevent state actors from creating "proof" that their enemies engaged in acts of war, and they are only engaging in "self-defens…

Nation states can run their own models if not now very soon. This isn't something you're going to control via AI-safety woo woo.

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I really just need to make some porn with this stuff already and I feel like we’re all tip toeing around this key feature. Censored models are not going to work and we need someone to charge for an explicit model already that we can trust.

Noo! Think about the children! (this post is sarcastic)

If they cared about the kids they would out ahead of this before it spreads like wildfire.

Re: Veo

#497

I really just need to make some porn with this stuff already and I feel like we’re all tip toeing around this key feature. Censored models are not going to work and we need someone to charge for an explicit model already that we can trust.

Noo! Think about the children! (this post is sarcastic)

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Re: Veo

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The videos in this demo are pretty neat. If this had been announced just four months ago we'd all be very impressed by the capabilities. The problem is that these video clips are very unimpressive compared to the Sora demonstration which came out three months ago. If this demo was announced by some scrappy startup it would be worth taking note. Coming from Google, the inventor of the Transformer and owner of the larg…

>these sample videos are underwhelming wow the speed at which we can be blasé is terrifying. 6 months ago this was not possible, and felt this was years away! They're not underwhelming to me, they're beyond anything I thought would ever be possible. are you genuinely unimpressed? or maybe trying to play it cool?

They didn't really do a very good job of selecting marketing examples. The only good one, that shows off creative possibilities, is the knit elephant. Everything else looks like the results of a (granted fairly advanced) search through a catalog of stock footage.

Even search, in and of itself, is incredibly amazing but fairly commoditized at this point. They should've highlighted more unique footage.

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My brain processes too slow for modern action movies. I can tell what's going on, but I always end up feeling agitated.

I'm okay with watching the majority of action movies, but I distinctly remember watching this fight scene in a Bourne movie and not having a clue what was going on. The constant camera changes, short shot length, and shaky cam, just confused the hell out of me. https://youtu.be/uLt7lXDCHQ0?si=JnVMjmu0WgN5Jr5e&t=70

I'm glad we're finally getting away from the 00's shaky cam era.
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