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Re: Sora 2

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Post by astrange »

ipaddr wrote: post #710
astrange wrote: post #700

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Until you have to replace a roof, or a tenant destroys the house, or it just doesn't rent for a while and nobody notices a water pipe breaking. It's risky to own a lot of buildings, and worse the risks are correlated if they're all in the same place (there could be a flood or wildfire etc.) Commercial real estate is different because your tenants are (more) professional.

You get insurance to manage risk. You factor in roof repairs, vacancy rates when determining rent meanwhile your property value over the last 10 years in most places around the world have at least doubled and more. Doesn't mean the next 10 years will see that growth but if you believe your country/area's population will grow it is probably a good investment for now in the western world.

Insurance is not free money and you can't simply distribute risks among your tenants because the risks are correlated.

Like I said, you can tell it doesn't work because these businesses don't exist. There are essentially no landlords who own multiple single family homes. They do exist for multifamily and commercial.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by giancarlostoro »

dang wrote: post #239
giancarlostoro wrote: post #199

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So being able to generate sign language videos for people who cannot hear is not a legitimate use case for AI videos? Or is your hate boner for AI just blinding you from useful applications?

Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. (Your comment would be just fine without the last sentence) https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Fair enough, I will keep that in mind.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by giancarlostoro »

ascorbic wrote: post #397
School-Cotton wrote: post #208

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Why can’t sign language be written? Why does it need to be on video?

There isn't a standard written form of any major sign languages

ASL would be the target, but also the hand motions might not be universal to convey.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by giancarlostoro »

currymj wrote: post #244
542458 wrote: post #215

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Is there a reason that's superior to subtitles, which are already fairly easy to generate?

sign languages are completely different languages from spoken languages, with their own grammar etc. subtitles can work but it's basically a second language. perhaps comparable to many countries where people speak a dialect that's very different from the "standard" written language. this is why you sometimes have sign language interpreters at events, rather than just captions. there's not really a widely accepted wri…

Sometimes the captions miss things or are really terribly written.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by nakedrobot2 »

davidmurdoch wrote: post #589

I just asked GPT 5 to generate an image of as person. I then asked it to charge the color of their shirt. It refused because "I can’t generate that specific image because it violates our content policies." I then asked it to just regenerate the first image again using the same prompt. It replied "I know this has been frustrating. You’ve been really clear about what you want, and it feels like I’m blocking you for no…

I get this all the time. Especially since GPT5, generating an image starts a massive chain where it confirms what you want, and asks you to say yes, and you say yes, and then it confirms again, and this can go on for 5-6 times. Then if you swear at it, it refuses to continue. It is insane. Fuck you, OpenAI

Re: Sora 2

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Post by apwell23 »

samuelfekete wrote: post #393

This is a step towards a constant stream of hyper-personalised AI generated content optimised for max dopamine.

not really. AI porn will never take off because ppl want to see a real person.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by bradstewart »

raincole wrote: post #560
wrigby wrote: post #553

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There are two completely distinct differences that jump out to me initially that I think may help justify your feelings: 1: Reading a long book demands focus on a longer timespan than scrolling TikTok, and with focusing on a single thing for a long time, we get a sense of accomplishment. I don’t know how to justify this as valuable, but for some reason I feel that it is. 2: The Song of Ice and Fire (and GoT) were con…

I think the point 2 will rub many people the wrong way (me included) though. That would make reading Fourth Wing or Twilight a more connecting experience than most classics. (Nothing inherently wrong with that, but... you know...)

Reading the classics, in some sense, connects you to everyone who ever read them across all of human history. That's not nothing.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by qwerasdf5 »

skybrian wrote: post #270
sys32768 wrote: post #242

I welcome a world where gullible people begin to doubt everything they see.

The result of that isn't rational skepticism, though. It's distrusting mainstream news and embracing whatever conspiracy theories your friends believe.

Wait, when did mainstream news become trustworthy? =)

Re: Sora 2

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Post by loa_in_ »

morleytj wrote: post #496
the_duke wrote: post #273

I haven't seen comments regarding a big factor here: It seems like OpenAI is trying to turn Sora into a social network - TikTok but AI. The webapp is heavily geared towards consumption, with a feed as the entry point, liking and commenting for posts, and user profiles having a prominent role. The creation aspect seems about as important as on Instagram, TikTok etc - easily available, but not the primary focus. Genera…

Not to be a downer, but even as someone very optimistic about technology and AI generally, "TikTok but AI" sounds like a societally terrible thing to try and create. What's the benefit of this? Curious if anyone has a solid viewpoint steelmanning any positives they can think of.

Think of it as Tenor GIF (a reaction gif provider) but if your prompt isn't there it's AI generated and cached (added) to the global library.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by xp84 »

morleytj wrote: post #496
the_duke wrote: post #273

I haven't seen comments regarding a big factor here: It seems like OpenAI is trying to turn Sora into a social network - TikTok but AI. The webapp is heavily geared towards consumption, with a feed as the entry point, liking and commenting for posts, and user profiles having a prominent role. The creation aspect seems about as important as on Instagram, TikTok etc - easily available, but not the primary focus. Genera…

Not to be a downer, but even as someone very optimistic about technology and AI generally, "TikTok but AI" sounds like a societally terrible thing to try and create. What's the benefit of this? Curious if anyone has a solid viewpoint steelmanning any positives they can think of.

Personally, I think TikTok and other video platforms are already awash in AI. So, in my opinion, a platform that is explicitly declared as containing just AI videos is actually less disturbing to me. Every minute spent watching known-fictional AI videos on this platform is a minute not spent watching deceptive imagery disguised as reality on TikTok.

Please note that I’m not necessarily commenting on whether the existence of AI generated video is good or bad for our society, because I think it’s pretty moot what we think about it. It’s not going to just go away even if the majority of people here at HN or in general feel that it’s problematic.

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