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Re: Meta Movie Gen

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Post by williamcotton »

fallous wrote: post #883
amelius wrote: post #879

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think that is necessarily true. Right now movies are so expensive that they can be created only by a few handfuls of people. But those people might not be the most creative people around. If thousands of people can create movies, we might find out that some people we didn't know of are far more creative. Also "creation by committee" isn't a thing when somebody can produce a movie in their basement. Anyway, I…

So expensive? It has never been cheaper to create movies thanks to digital cameras and non-linear editors, digital audio workstations, etc. You are no longer encumbered by the costs of film, development, renting an edit bay, requiring an audio editing studio to mix audio and maintain a tape library of special effects or hire foley artists, no need for an optical printer to layer visual effects, etc. You already can p…

Sure, the cost of making Clerks has dropped, but not the cost of making Dune.

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Post by gloflo »

bboygravity wrote: post #875
M4v3R wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It will be a loong time before AI can produce lead actors that are believable, act exactly the way you as a director want and tell the story you want to tell, so I think at least for now you'll still need the actors for the lead roles. But I can totally this being used for generating people/stuff in the background of certain shots in a low budget movie.

"long time" in LLM land = 2 years tops

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Re: Meta Movie Gen

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Post by nojs »

nl wrote: post #890
heurist wrote: post #273

I've been saying for years that generated content is an impending tsunami that's going to drown out all real human voices online. The internet may become effectively unusable as a result for anything other than entertainment.

Why should I care? Have you seen what most humans say? If an AI says more intelligent things I'm all for it.

Mission fucking accomplished?

https://xkcd.com/810/

Re: Meta Movie Gen

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Post by knicholes »

throw310822 wrote: post #564

The porntential is immense. Seriously though. This is the company that is betting hard on VR goggles. And these are engines that can produce real time dreams, 3d, photographic quality, obedient to our commands. No 3d models needed, no physics simulations, no ray tracing, no prebuilt environments and avatars. All simply dreamed up in real time, as requested by the user in natural language. It might be one of the most…

Just wait until content is generated based on dopamine release rates or brain signals instead of through text.

Re: Meta Movie Gen

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Post by 999900000999 »

nuz wrote: post #236
999900000999 wrote: post #225

Very cool. But I'm worried about this tech being used for propaganda and dis information. Someone with a 1K computer and enough effort can generate a video that looks real enough. Add some effects to make it look like it was captured by a CCTV or another low res camera. This is what we know about, who knows what's behind NDAs or security clearances.

Same was thought to happen about images but it hasn't. People quickly debunk AI generated content presented as real in replies or community notes. Not a real issue.

Maybe maybe not. As is simple false journalism has caused issues on Facebook in certain countries ( to put it lightly).

It's only going to look more realistic in time...

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Post by arendtio »

runeks wrote: post #885
Aeolun wrote: post #882

Why are there so many websites that are essentially static HTML that make my phone stutter? The video’s look cool, but I can’t really enjoy reading about them if my phone freezes every 2 seconds.

Which browser?

And which device.

Over the years, adding many simultaneous videos to websites has become quite common, and I have always marveled at how well many devices can handle this.

Nevertheless, it is pretty demanding for the hardware, and many smartphones are not made for such tasks.

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Post by jowea »

nl wrote: post #890
heurist wrote: post #273

I've been saying for years that generated content is an impending tsunami that's going to drown out all real human voices online. The internet may become effectively unusable as a result for anything other than entertainment.

Why should I care? Have you seen what most humans say? If an AI says more intelligent things I'm all for it.

AIs say what the people giving them orders tell them to.

And until we get AGI, AI talk will necessarily be some combination of hallucinations, unintelligent, vapid, etc.

Re: Meta Movie Gen

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Post by fasa99 »

Aeolun wrote: post #882

Why are there so many websites that are essentially static HTML that make my phone stutter? The video’s look cool, but I can’t really enjoy reading about them if my phone freezes every 2 seconds.

Q: Why are there so many websites that are essentially static HTML that make my phone stutter?

A: because your phone is a potato

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Re: Meta Movie Gen

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Post by jowea »

boogieknite wrote: post #323
heurist wrote: post #273

I've been saying for years that generated content is an impending tsunami that's going to drown out all real human voices online. The internet may become effectively unusable as a result for anything other than entertainment.

This is interesting and i see some of this now. Even here on HN and other forums i thought were mostly "human". Even one of my group chats i can tell one of my friends is using ai responses, but one of the other members cant tell and replies earnestly. I am grossed out by this. my instinct is to avoid ai slop. The interesting part to me is: What next? Where do we go? Will it be that "human" forums are pushed further…

My hot take is that we will have some small obscure forums with people, some social media flooded with AI content and other social media where you need to register with government ID and facescan.

Re: Meta Movie Gen

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Post by jowea »

valval wrote: post #654
lopis wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assure you that's not enough. These are high quality videos. Once they get uploaded to social media, compression mostly makes imperfections go away. And it's been shown that when people are not expecting AI content, they are much less likely to realize they are looking at AI. I would 100% believe most of these videos were real if caught off guard.

The way I see it, it won’t take long before human eyes won’t be able to distinguish AI generated content from original. The only regret I have about that is losing video as a form of evidence. CCTV footage and the like are a valuable tool for solving crimes. That’s going to be out the window soon.

I don't think it goes out the window completely. You need just the owner of the CCTV to stand up in court and say "yes this is the CCTV footage I personally copied from storage and I did not manipulate it".
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