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Re: Sora: Creating video from text

#711
The rendering of static on the TVs is interesting/strange. Must be hard for AI to generate random noise:

Video 7 of 8 on the 2nd player on the page.

> Prompt: The camera rotates around a large stack of vintage televisions all showing different programs — 1950s sci-fi movies, horror movies, news, static, a 1970s sitcom, etc, set inside a large New York museum gallery.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

#712

All the examples feel so familiar, like I have seen them all before buried in the depths of YouTube and long-forgotten BBC documentaries. Which I guess is obvious knowing roughly how the training works. I guess what I'm wondering is how "new" the videos are, or how closely do they mimic a particular video in the training set? Will we generate compelling and novel works of art with this, or is this just a very round-a…

Maybe this was a big influence on the woolly mammoth example: https://youtu.be/EzzTX3DYMNs?si=WS28fsf5j6SBI1-7&t=15

Also interesting that some of the examples ignore details in the prompts. No clouds or sun in the sky, no depth of field, their hair isn't blowing in the wind.

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#714
I wonder how much of a blocker to real use not having things like model rigging or fine-tuned control over things will be to practical use of this? Clearly it can be used in toy examples with extremely impressive results, but I'm not entirely convinced that, as is, it can replace the VFX industry as a whole.

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#715

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 should we have those things, with this technology everything will get cheaper and the standard of living will rise.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

#717

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 hope we will NEVER be close to UBI. UBI is just socialism in disguise and will be downfall of our civilisation.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

#718

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?

Close your eyes.

For most of human history, people didn’t have constant access to art work or videos. Things were fine. Maybe instead of watching manufactured shit on social media, go see a live theatre production. Seek genuineness.

You can live a great life without ever seeing a picture or video.

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Does anyone else feel a sense of doom from these advancements? I'm definitely not a Luddite, I've been working professionally as a programmer for quite some time now, but I just can't shake this feeling. And this is not in the "I might lose my job to this" kind of feeling, that's obviously there, but it's something deeper, more sinister. I don't think I can explain it properly. Anyway, videos look incredible. I genui…

I feel the opposite. I've been overwhelmed with a sense of my mortality, that I need to care for my body better, in order to live as long as possible into this age. I feel like I won the lottery of birth date to be able to see this. I get your perspective, and I have no doubt the wealth gap will widen painfully, but I'm also optimistic about humanity's ability to work it out.

Where does your optimism come from?
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