This is the second time OpenAI has released something right at the same time as google did (Gemini 1.5 Pro with 10M token context length just now). Can't just be a coincidence
Sora: Creating video from text
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#62Yeah, you just can't let all media, all the cost and hard work of millions of photographers, animators, filmmakers, etc be completely consumed and devalued by one company just because it's a very cool technical trick. The more powerful these services become the more obvious that will be. What OpenAI does is amazing, but they obviously cannot be allowed to capture the value of every piece of media ever created — it'll…
There will just be 1000x more content, with most of it hyper personalized and consumed by individual users instead of by masses of people.
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#63This is leaps and bounds beyond anything out there, including both public models like SVD 1.1 and Pika Labs' / Runway's models. Incredible.
Agreed. It's amazing how much of a head start OpenAI appears to have over everyone else. Even Microsoft who has access to everything OpenAI is doing. Only Microsoft could be given the keys to the kingdom and still not figure out how to open any doors with them.
Microsoft doesn’t have access to OpenAI’s research, this was part of the deal. They only have access to the weights and inference code of production models and even then who has access to that inside MS is extremely gated and only a few employees have access to this based on absolute need to actually run the service.
AI researcher at MSFT barely have more insights about OpenAI than you do reading HN.
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#64Countdown 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.
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#65Yeah, you just can't let all media, all the cost and hard work of millions of photographers, animators, filmmakers, etc be completely consumed and devalued by one company just because it's a very cool technical trick. The more powerful these services become the more obvious that will be. What OpenAI does is amazing, but they obviously cannot be allowed to capture the value of every piece of media ever created — it'll…
I think there is 100% chance it will be regulated to address some of the points you raised. Copyright being essentially neutered won't work.
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#66Yeah, you just can't let all media, all the cost and hard work of millions of photographers, animators, filmmakers, etc be completely consumed and devalued by one company just because it's a very cool technical trick. The more powerful these services become the more obvious that will be. What OpenAI does is amazing, but they obviously cannot be allowed to capture the value of every piece of media ever created — it'll…
I see the validity of this concern in the short term, but long term I feel like this is a bit doomsday. I don't want anyone's livelihood to get shafted, but realistically I see this as lowering the barrier to creating videos / proofs of concept--which is a good thing (with a lot of caveats and asterisks).
Re: Sora: Creating video from text
#67Countdown 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.
I imagine it's not long before we see hyper-targeted commercials where the actors look like us, live in our city, etc.
Custom AI commercials would be very interesting. Instead of seeing strangers enjoying the benefits of the product, it shows you. A car commercial would show you driving, etc.
Commercials and TV episodes could have a basic "story arc" and then completely customized to the viewer.
Think about the simpson's or something. Imagine that the story of the episodes were kept, but you could swap in the characters and locations. So for instance if you lived in Nashville TN, all the simpson's episodes could be generated to show the settings as Nashville instead of Springfield.
Then you could have the AI switch out the characters to be people you want. Maybe you want to replace Lisa with an AI Simpsons version of you. Mayor Quimby with Nashville's actual mayor, etc.
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#68I do wonder why OpenAI chose the name "Sora" for this model. AI is now going to have intersectionality with Kingdom Hearts. (Atleast you don't need a PhD to understand AI.)
Hear me out: Someone on the team is a fan of Yosuga No Sora
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#69This is leaps and bounds beyond anything out there, including both public models like SVD 1.1 and Pika Labs' / Runway's models. Incredible.
I'm almost speechless. I've been keeping an eye on the text-to-video models, and if these example videos are truly indicative of the model, this is an order of magnitude better than anything currently available.
In particular, looking at the video titled "Borneo wildlife on the Kinabatangan River" (number 7 in the third group), the accurate parallax of the tree stood out to me. I'm so curious to learn how this is working.
[Direct link to the video: https://player.vimeo.com/video/913130937?h=469b1c8a45]
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#70This is leaps and bounds beyond anything out there, including both public models like SVD 1.1 and Pika Labs' / Runway's models. Incredible.
Must be intimidating to be on the Pika team at the moment...