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Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by elicksaur »

neutralx wrote: post #378

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…

Tangent to feeling numb to it - will it hinder children developing the understanding of physics, object permanence, etc. that our brains have?

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Post by nomadpenguin »

Buckworthy wrote: post #586
telesilla wrote: post #525

Watching these made me think, I'm going to want to go to the theatre a lot more in the future and see fellow humans in plays, lectures and concerts. Such achievements in technology must lead to cultural change. Look at how popular vinyl has become, why not theatre again.

Imagine movies generated in real-time just for you, with the faces you know, places you know and what not!

That would suck. I want to see something I haven't seen before.

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Post by VoodooJuJu »

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?

It's just a digital CONTENT! machine, it's not a big deal. CONTENT! consoomers - rejoice, producers - keep producing. Where does the sense of doom come from? What power does this company even have? The power to churn out more movieslop? Is that powerful? We've had decades of that, it's tiresome.

Touch grass, tend your garden, play with your kids, drink a beer, bake a pie, write a poem, take a walk, carve a sculpture, play a board game, mend a sweater, take a breath. Relax.

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Animats wrote: post #588

The Hollywood Reporter says many in the industry are very scared.[1] “I’ve heard a lot of people say they’re leaving film,” he says. “I’ve been thinking of where I can pivot to if I can’t make a living out of this anymore.” - a concept artist responsible for the look of the Hunger Games and some other films. "A study surveying 300 leaders across Hollywood, issued in January, reported that three-fourths of respondents…

Probably a bad time to be an actor.

Amazing time to be a wannabe director or producer or similar creative visionary.

Bad time to be high up in a hierarchical/gatekeeping/capital-constrained biz like Hollywood.

Amazing time to be an aspirant that would otherwise not have access to resources, capital, tools in order to bring their ideas to fruition.

On balance I think the ‘20s are going to be a great decade for creativity and the arts.

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Animats wrote: post #588

The Hollywood Reporter says many in the industry are very scared.[1] “I’ve heard a lot of people say they’re leaving film,” he says. “I’ve been thinking of where I can pivot to if I can’t make a living out of this anymore.” - a concept artist responsible for the look of the Hunger Games and some other films. "A study surveying 300 leaders across Hollywood, issued in January, reported that three-fourths of respondents…

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Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by nlpparty »

thepasswordis wrote: post #112
Delumine wrote: post #56

This is insane. Even though there are open-source models, I think this is too dangerous to release to the public. If someone would've uploaded that Tokyo video to youtube, and told me it was a drone.. I would've believed them. All "proof" we have can be contested or fabricated.

"Proof" for thousands of years was whatever was written down, and that was even easier to forge. There was a brief time (maybe 100 years at the most) where photos and videos were practically proof of something happening; that is coming to an end now, but that's just a regression to the mean, not new territory.

Photos have never been a fundamental proof if the stakes are high or you have an idling censorship institution. Soviets (and maybe others, I just happen to know only about them ) successfully edited photos and then mass-reproduced them.

just some google link about the issue: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/stalin-photo-manipulation-1...

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by kolja005 »

idiliv wrote: post #141

People here seem mostly impressed by the high resolution of these examples. Based on my experience doing research on Stable Diffusion, scaling up the resolution is the conceptually easy part that only requires larger models and more high-resolution training data. The hard part is semantic alignment with the prompt. Attempts to scale Stable Diffusion, like SDXL, have resulted only in marginally better prompt understan…

There needs to be an updated CLIP-like model in the open-source community. The model is almost three years old now and is still the backbone of a lot of multimodal models. It's not a sexy problem to take on since it isn't especially useful in and of itself, but so many downstream foundation models (LLaVA, etc.) would benefit immensely from it. Is there anything out there that I'm just not aware of, other than SigLIP?

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by 999900000999 »

drdaeman wrote: post #86
treesciencebot wrote: post #14

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

Let's hold our breath. Those are specifically crafted hand-picked good videos, where there wasn't any requirement but "write a generic prompt and pick something that looks good", with no particular requirements. Which is very different from the actual process where you have a very specific idea and want the machine to make it happen. DALL-E presentation also looked cool and everyone was stoked about it. Now that we k…

The year is 2030.

Sarah is a video sorter, this was her life. She graduated top of her class in film, and all she could find was the monotonous job of selecting videos that looked just real enough.

Until one day, she couldn't believe it. It was her. A video of of her in that very moment sorting. She went to pause the video, but stopped when he doppelganger did the same.

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