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Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by TrackerFF »

kweingar wrote: post #206

Obviously incredibly cool, but it seems that people are incredibly overstating the applications of this. Realistically, how do you fit this into a movie, a TV show, or a game? You write a text prompt, get a scene, and then everything is gone—the characters, props, rooms, buildings, environments, etc. won’t carry over to the next prompt.

lots and lots and lots of b-roll and stock footage is about to get cheaper.

Also, using this kind of footage is the bread and butter for a lot of marketers for their content.

Imagine never having to pay stock footage companies

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by nox101 »

slowturtle wrote: post #903

I can’t wait for the day I can strap on my Apple® Vision Pro® 9 with OpenAI® integration and spend all my time interfacing ( wink ) with my virtual girlfriend. Sure my unlit 3 by 3 meter LifePod® is a little cramped and my arm itches from the Soylent® IV drip, but I’ll save so much time by not having to go outside and interact with legacy humans!

Apple doesn't allow "wink" in apps so no, this will not be happening on an Apple Vision Pro

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Post by barfingclouds »

bamboozled wrote: post #815
sebastiennight wrote: post #363

I think the implications go much further than just the image/video considerations. This model shows a very good (albeit not perfect) understanding of the physics of objects and relationships between them. The announcement mentions this several times. The OpenAI blog post lists "Archeologists discover a generic plastic chair in the desert, excavating and dusting it with great care." as one of the "failed" cases. But t…

Wouldn't having a good understanding of physics mean you know that a women doesn't slide down the road when she walks? Wouldn't it know that a woolly mammoth doesn't emit profuse amounts steam when walking on frozen snow? Wouldn't the model know that legs are solid objects in which other object cannot pass through? Maybe I'm missing the big picture here, but the above and all the weird spatial errors, like miniaturiz…

Give it a year

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by barfingclouds »

drdaeman wrote: post #86
treesciencebot wrote: post #14

This is leaps and bounds beyond anything out there, including both public models like SVD 1.1 and Pika Labs' / Runway's models. Incredible.

Let's hold our breath. Those are specifically crafted hand-picked good videos, where there wasn't any requirement but "write a generic prompt and pick something that looks good", with no particular requirements. Which is very different from the actual process where you have a very specific idea and want the machine to make it happen. DALL-E presentation also looked cool and everyone was stoked about it. Now that we k…

Look at Sam altman’s twitter where he made videos on demand from what people prompted him

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by cchance »

The scene of the train, could easily be used in a transition scene in a movie, like theres so much here like stock videos are gonna be f*cked in short order, and if they add composition and planning tools, and loras, so will the movie industry.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by IAmGraydon »

LoveMortuus wrote: post #875
mihaic wrote: post #873

This is both amazing and saddening to me. All our cultural legacy is being fed into a monstrous machine that gives no attribution to the original content with which it was fed, and so the creative industry seems to be in great danger. Creativity being automated while humans are forced to perform menial tasks for minimum wage doesn't seem like a great future and the geriatric political class has absolutely no clue how…

We are all standing on the shoulders of giants, whose existence and names we will never know or acknowledge. The way these models are creative is the same way humans are. The artist that painted Mona Lisa didn't credit any of the influences and inspirations that they had. Just as cameras made many artists redundant, so too will every other new tool, and not just artist but pretty much every job. But there are still p…

>The way these models are creative is the same way humans are. The artist that painted Mona Lisa didn't credit any of the influences and inspirations that they had.

I'm continually amazed at how many people argue against this point on HN, which is largely biased toward logical discourse. What you just said is exactly right, and is the Achilles heel of the legal arguments against generative AI. If what they are doing illegal, then so is the human act of creativity. If human creativity is legal, then so is generative AI trained on existing art.

What has yet to come is the mass realization (or perhaps, admission) that the way AI works is no different from the way we work.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by robomartin »

mihaic wrote: post #873

This is both amazing and saddening to me. All our cultural legacy is being fed into a monstrous machine that gives no attribution to the original content with which it was fed, and so the creative industry seems to be in great danger. Creativity being automated while humans are forced to perform menial tasks for minimum wage doesn't seem like a great future and the geriatric political class has absolutely no clue how…

> the geriatric political class has absolutely no clue how to manage the situation.

OK, well, you walked right into this one:

You must know the answer: How do you manage it?

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by michaelcampbell »

mihaic wrote: post #873

This is both amazing and saddening to me. All our cultural legacy is being fed into a monstrous machine that gives no attribution to the original content with which it was fed, and so the creative industry seems to be in great danger. Creativity being automated while humans are forced to perform menial tasks for minimum wage doesn't seem like a great future and the geriatric political class has absolutely no clue how…

Yes and no; I mean there are still painters around and we still appreciate their skill in the world of photographs. Sometimes it's only marginally about the finished product, but also about the work to make it.

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Post by procinct »

dingclancy wrote: post #825
telesilla wrote: post #525

Watching these made me think, I'm going to want to go to the theatre a lot more in the future and see fellow humans in plays, lectures and concerts. Such achievements in technology must lead to cultural change. Look at how popular vinyl has become, why not theatre again.

The vinyl narrative is so whack. https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/ At its peak, Inflation adjusted Vinyl Sales was $1.4billion in 1979. Then forward to the lowest sales in 2009 at $3.4million. So Vinyl has been so popular it grew to $8.5m by 2021. That is just nostalgia, not cultural change pushed by the dystopia of AI.

I think a lot of people collect vinyl less for nostalgia reasons and more so to have a physical collection of their music. I think vinyl wins over CDs just due to how it’s larger and the cover art often looks better as a result.
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