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Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by afavour »

rf15 wrote: post #477
afavour wrote: post #298

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No, AI is truly useful in software engineering. I was a skeptic until I started using it. No, it isn’t going to solve every problem out there, but it’s a force multiplier.

You pay understanding for speed. How much this trade is acceptable is up to you and the task you have in front of you. I cannot recommend it as a general solution.

You might say the same about garbage collected programming languages. It’s an acceptable tradeoff in a lot of scenarios. Same goes for AI.

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by muzani »

mlrtime wrote: post #582
muzani wrote: post #511

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They're different impulses. Some want to consume. Others want to create. TikTok and social media is a strange mix of both, people posting response videos to everything. Personally, I've stopped subscribing to Spotify, YT music, etc because the slop from Suno is good enough to replace mainstream music or whatever lofi playlist. It's free, it's good enough, and it's not grating to hear after a few days of that favorite…

How do you get Suno songs for free? You listen to others or make your own?

They have a discover section for songs made public.

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by bookofjoe »

mathattack wrote: post #183
meken wrote: post #163

I had so much fun making videos with my mom when it came out. During the first two weeks, we made over 100 cameo videos together - we were constantly running up against the upload limit. It unleashed tons of genuine creativity, joy, and laughter from us. After those first two weeks though, we just… didn’t use it again. The novelty wore off and there wasn’t anything really to bring us back. That was the real downfall…

This is consistent with a lot of AI apps. I fell in love with Gamma and haven’t used it in forever. Same with NotebookLM.

It's not just software: I use my Vision Pro (now in year 3) less than once a month now, and each time I do the painful/awkward/unpleasant set-up and prep and difficult interface sours me on the device yet again, until a new blockbuster movie like "Project Hail Mary" appears that when watched on the VP in 4K on a virtual 40-foot screen blows my mind.

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by neutronicus »

hansmayer wrote: post #570
muzani wrote: post #511

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They're different impulses. Some want to consume. Others want to create. TikTok and social media is a strange mix of both, people posting response videos to everything. Personally, I've stopped subscribing to Spotify, YT music, etc because the slop from Suno is good enough to replace mainstream music or whatever lofi playlist. It's free, it's good enough, and it's not grating to hear after a few days of that favorite…

Sweet Jesus. You realise this is the mental equivalent of stuffing your stomach full of junkfood and soda every day?

For a lot of people music is a focus aid, not the object of contemplation.

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Post by 4ggr0 »

reverius42 wrote: post #540
UncleMeat wrote: post #363

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People make revenge porn to humiliate people. Regular old porn can't achieve that goal.

If anyone can fake it, is revenge porn even effective? Doesn't making it easy for anyone to fake also make all of it plausibly deniable?

maybe try to view this topic with a bit more criticality. i just quickly googled some keywords and am pasting the very first search entry so you get an idea:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sextortion-generative-ai-scam-e...

revenge porn or deepfakes in general are hugely harmful to people.

in the german-speaking world there's a scandal right now about a husband creating deepfakes of his wife, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/christia...

> One fake video, which she claims was sent to 21 men, depicted her being gang-raped

i think you're taking this topic lightly because you just assume that it's not a big deal. try to keep in mind that people's mental health and with this their life is at stake.

as with lots of things, the problem is not the tech itself, but the existence of men. it's not all men, but it's usually men. not sure how we'll solve this issue.

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by SecretDreams »

small_model wrote: post #484
SecretDreams wrote: post #277

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> XAI Kind of insulting to lump google in with XAI? Like, is anyone even using XAI other than backwater government agencies?

Yep I use Grok and Claude mainly, Grok is integrated into x.com and Teslas so so potentially hundreds of millions of people.

That's a lot of people having an inferior product and lack of choice being forced down their throats.

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by 4ggr0 »

exodust wrote: post #482
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #351

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I have gladly been paying $20/month for ChatGPT since the day web search was available and I use codex-cli every day instead of Claude and never have to think about limits. I also use ChatGPT as my default search engine and to help me learn Spanish. But image generation and video generation were a nice parlor trick. But wasn’t useful for me except for images for icons for diagrams. But light you said, porn makes mone…

> there are people who pay $300 a month for Grok to generate AI Porn. Did you just make that up? Grok barely makes "M-rated" nudity, let alone porn. Musk recently claimed it can do "R-Rated content", but his post got a community note saying otherwise. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2031989543529038103

dude, there was a huge scandal a couple of weeks ago about grok creating CSAM...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/martinadilicosa/2026/01/09/grok...

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by noelsusman »

hansmayer wrote: post #570
muzani wrote: post #511

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They're different impulses. Some want to consume. Others want to create. TikTok and social media is a strange mix of both, people posting response videos to everything. Personally, I've stopped subscribing to Spotify, YT music, etc because the slop from Suno is good enough to replace mainstream music or whatever lofi playlist. It's free, it's good enough, and it's not grating to hear after a few days of that favorite…

Sweet Jesus. You realise this is the mental equivalent of stuffing your stomach full of junkfood and soda every day?

That doesn't sound meaningfully different from what people are already doing on Instagram and TikTok all day.

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by ionwake »

jjulius wrote: post #632
ionwake wrote: post #587

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Totally disagree this is what would happen. Hypertheasher2000 breaks through my door to eat me. First time I’ve seen a man made human eating werewolf bot. Me: damn that’s cool …………AAAAAHHH HELP ME

>Totally disagree this is what would happen. Doesn't matter if you agree that would happen, the analogy is valid - you're essentially admitting that you're ignoring the negative impacts of the tech for the sake of how impressive it is.

Im not sure you understand the conversation we are having.

I have said about 3 times I am solely judging tech by how impressive it is technically.

I have no idea who you are arguing with.

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