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Post by huhtenberg »

cyrialize wrote: post #409

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?

The feeling comes from not being able to understand how exactly this is done. Makes one feel like a prehistoric man looking at a smartphone.

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Post by lawrencechen »

cyrialize wrote: post #409

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?

> Historically, letting technology eliminate their jobs has been a sacrifice people have made for their kids' sakes. Not intentionally, for the most part, but their kids ended up with the new jobs created as a result. No one weaves now, and that's fine.

- paulg

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1757794178548048117

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Post by slothtrop »

hansonkd wrote: post #26

Countdown to when studios licensing this for "unlimited" episodes of your favorite series. There was Seinfeld "Nothing, Forever" AI parody, but once the models improve enough and are cheap enough to deploy, studios will license their content for real and just have endless seasons. Or even custom episodes. Imagine if every episode of a TV show was unique to the viewer.

Actors had a strike in part over this recently.

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Post by unethical_ban »

cyrialize wrote: post #409

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?

Saving money, honing personal skills that ai can't replicate. Staying offline and enjoying the world each day without looking at my phone.

This stuff is going to change media and reality so much. Best to get involved in local groups.

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Post by zuminator »

jijijijij wrote: post #237
thepasswordis wrote: post #100

OpenAI demonstrating the size of their moat. How many multi-million-dollar funded startups did this just absolutely obsolete? This is so, so, so much better than every other generative video AI we've seen. Most of those were basically a still image with a very slowly moving background. This is not that. Sam is probably going to get his $7T if he keeps this up, and when he does everybody else will be locked out foreve…

I predict, this "AI" content generation will eat itself at last. It will outcompete the low-effort "content" industry as is. Then inevitably completely devalue this sort of "product". Because it will never get to 100% of the real thing, the "AI" content craze will ultimately implode. I bet we won't get AGI as a progression of this very technology. The impression of "usefulness" will end when "AI" is starting to drink…

Do people care about 100% of the real thing though? Phone photos are oversaturated and over-sharpened. TikTok and other social media videos are more often then not run through filters giving their creators impossibly smooth skin and slim waists along with other effects not intended to look in any way realistic. Almost every major motion picture has tons of visual effects that defy physical reality. Nature documentaries have for decades faked or sweetened their sound production, staged their encounters with wildlife, etc.

People are more concerned about being stimulated than they are about verisimilitude.

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Post by adastra22 »

cyrialize wrote: post #409

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?

Why do you feel depression, not joy when humanity moves the line of progress further?

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Post by __MatrixMan__ »

cyrialize wrote: post #409

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?

We've been on an unsustainable trajectory for quite a while now. I take hope from things like this. Maybe this time it'll finally be the shock we need to rethink everything.

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Post by slothtrop »

d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #494

Mind blown of course. Two things are interesting: - No audio -- that must have been hard to add, or else it would have been there. - Spelling is still probably hard to do (the familiar DallE problem)... e.g. a video showing a car driving past a billboard with specified text.

My intuition is that training on audio will be trivial if they can accomplish this for video. Maybe I'm wrong.

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Post by pradn »

It's impressive, but I think it's still in the same category as even the best LLMs: the demos look good and they can be quite useful, but you can never quite trust them. You really can't just have an LLM write a whole report for you - who knows what facts it'll make up, what it'll miss? You really can't use this to generate video for work, who knows where the little artifacts are (it's easier to tell with video).

The future of these high-fidelity (but not perfect) generative AI systems is in realizing we're going to need "humans in the loop". This means designing to output human-manipulable data - perhaps models/skeletons/textures instead of whole output. Pixels are hard to manipulate directly!

As for entertainment, already we see people sick of CGI - will people really want to pay for AI-generated video?

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Post by harryquach »

cyrialize wrote: post #409

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?

There will be a business created specializing in authenticating digital information. I have no doubt this problem will be solved with technology.
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