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Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by jmfldn » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 10:47 PM UTC

Technically breathtaking, but why do these examples of AI-generated content always have a cheap clipart vibe about them? So naff and uninspired given the, no doubt, endless potential this technology has.

I also feel a sense of dread too. Imagine the tidal wave of rubbish coming our way. First text, then images and now video can be spewed out in industrial quantities. Will it lead to a better culture? In theory it could, in practice I just feel like we'll be deluged with exponentially more mediocre "content" .

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by MobinaMaghami » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 10:47 PM UTC

hi, my name is mobina and I am from Iran. I want to make a video from text and so yeah. thank you for watching.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by bamboozled » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 10:49 PM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #190

This is insane. But I'm impressed most of all by the quality of motion . I've quite simply never seen convincing computer-generated motion before . Just look at the way the wooly mammoths connect with the ground, and their lumbering mass feels real. Motion-capture works fine because that's real motion, but every time people try to animate humans and animals, even in big-budget CGI movies, it's always ultimately obvio…

I’m a bit thrown off by the fact the mammoths are steaming, is that normal for mammoths ?

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by MobinaMaghami » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 10:50 PM UTC

are you gays all hackers? I am not

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by quadcore » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 10:50 PM UTC

HN server runs smoothly and is having a walk in the park it seems - impressive compared to previous OpenAI annoucements. Has there been significant rollouts?

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by suyash » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 10:52 PM UTC

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 is no UBI coming, govt can barely fund current budgetary needs without borrowing tons of money. If here are no jobs means no tax payers which will further shrink gov budgets. We are on our own as I see it.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by satvikpendem » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 10:52 PM UTC

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?

I don't worry. These are all ultimately just tools for humans, they don't do anything without us prompting them to do so.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by rightbyte » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 10:53 PM UTC

bogwog wrote: post #96

My AI idea: Civil war as a service (CWaaS) Prompt: poll worker sneakily taking ballots labeled , and throwing them in the trash.

You realize how easy it is to do that with actors, right?

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by throw310822 » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 10:55 PM UTC

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 thing that fills me with dread watching these videos is not (much) the thought of how many jobs it might make useless. It's the thought that every single pixel, every movement is fake. There is literally not a speck of truth in these videos, there is nothing one can learn about the real world. Yes they're often "right" but any detail can be wrong at any moment. Just like ChatGPT hallucinating but in a much deeper way- we know that language can be used to lie or just make up things, but a realistic video hits in a different way. For example the video of the crested pigeon- a bird I haven't seen before- is beautiful and yet it can be wrong in an infinity of details- actually, I don't even know if such a bird exists.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by up2isomorphism » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 10:57 PM UTC

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?

I just don’t find much value of the things that they are generating so I don’t feel that’s a problem. If there is anything this things is positive, is that it reminds us how boring and predictable the daily life of normal people are.