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Post by honkycat »

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…

In the same way the "organic" movement took over food, and we want to feel human skill and touch in what we are consuming, I think we will see a similar swing in media.

People invest in stories. They also invest in other people. This is why people love seeing Tom Cruise over and over again in movies. Or why I'm going to go see the next Scorsese movie.

Reality television is designed to be addicting, and engaging, and it is very successful at that. I get pulled into The storylines whenever I watch. But I quickly turn it off. I don't watch it not because it is not enjoyable, but because I realize it is a cotton candy: empty trash that is not worth my time.

Artists are already often criticized for being "corporate." I think we'll see a similar effect for AI generated content. The hoi polloi and normies will slurp it up.

The true fans and passionate ones who give a shit aren't going to be fooled.

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Post by EMBSee »

smusamashah wrote: post #122

Did anyone else feel motion sickness or nausea watching some of these videos? In some of the videos with some panning or rotating motion, i felt some nausea like sickness effect. I guess its because some details were changing while in motion and I was unable to keep track or focus anything in particular. Effect was stronger in some videos.

Yes, I felt seriously nauseous. I feel like I just took off early gen VR goggles. Still feeling gross after 30 minutes.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by marvin »

torginus wrote: post #239

I'm not sure about others, but I'm extremely unnerved about how OpenAI just throws these innovations out with zero foreshadowing - it's crazy how the world's potentially most life-changing company operates with the secrecy of a black military program. I really wonder what's going to come out of the company and on what timeline.

OpenAI is the Manhattan Project of machine intelligence. Private-sector.

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Post by hcarvalhoalves »

Animats wrote: post #588

The Hollywood Reporter says many in the industry are very scared.[1] “I’ve heard a lot of people say they’re leaving film,” he says. “I’ve been thinking of where I can pivot to if I can’t make a living out of this anymore.” - a concept artist responsible for the look of the Hunger Games and some other films. "A study surveying 300 leaders across Hollywood, issued in January, reported that three-fourths of respondents…

They shouldn’t be worried so soon. This will be used to pump out shitty hero movies more quickly, but there will always be demand for a masterpiece after the hype cools down.

This is like a chef worrying going out of business because of fast food.

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Post by FrozenSynapse »

hcarvalhoalves wrote: post #976
Animats wrote: post #588

The Hollywood Reporter says many in the industry are very scared.[1] “I’ve heard a lot of people say they’re leaving film,” he says. “I’ve been thinking of where I can pivot to if I can’t make a living out of this anymore.” - a concept artist responsible for the look of the Hunger Games and some other films. "A study surveying 300 leaders across Hollywood, issued in January, reported that three-fourths of respondents…

They shouldn’t be worried so soon. This will be used to pump out shitty hero movies more quickly, but there will always be demand for a masterpiece after the hype cools down. This is like a chef worrying going out of business because of fast food.

Yeah, but how many will work on that singular masterpiece? The rest will be reduced and won’t have a job to put food on the table

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Post by josemanuel »

patall wrote: post #406
crazygringo wrote: post #190

This is insane. But I'm impressed most of all by the quality of motion . I've quite simply never seen convincing computer-generated motion before . Just look at the way the wooly mammoths connect with the ground, and their lumbering mass feels real. Motion-capture works fine because that's real motion, but every time people try to animate humans and animals, even in big-budget CGI movies, it's always ultimately obvio…

I disagree, just look at the legs of the woman in the first video. First she seems to be limping, than the legs rotate. The mammoth are totally uncanny for me as its both running and walking at the same time. Don't get me wrong, it is impressive. But I think many people will be very uncomfortable with such motion very quickly. Same story as the fingers before.

At second 15, of the woman video, the legs switch sides!! Definitely there are some glitches :)

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by dudeinhawaii »

I say this with all sincerity, if you're not overwhelmingly impressed with Sora then you haven't been involved in the field of AI generated video recently. While we understand that we're on the exponential curve of AI progress, it's always hard to intuit just what that means.

Sora represents a monumental leap forward, it's comically a 3000% improvement in 'coherent' video generation seconds. Coupled with a significantly enhanced understanding of contextual prompts and overall quality, it's has achieved what many (most?) thought would take another year or two.

I think we will see studios like ILM pivoting to AI in the near future. There's no need for 200 VFX artists when you can have 15 artists working with AI tooling to generate all the frame-by-frame effects, backgrounds, and compositing for movies. It'll open the door for indie projects that can take place in settings that were previously the domain of big Hollywood. A sci-fi opera could be put together with a few talented actors, AI effects and a small team to handle post-production. This could conceivably include AI scoring.

Sure, Hollywood and various guilds will strongly resist but it'll require just a handful of streaming companies to pivot. Suddenly content creation costs for Netflix drops an order of magnitude. The economics of content creation will fundamentally change.

At the risk of being proven very wrong, I think replacing actors is still fairly distant in the future but again... humans are bad at conceptualizing exponential progress.

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Post by dorkwood »

rightbyte wrote: post #558
bogwog wrote: post #96

My AI idea: Civil war as a service (CWaaS) Prompt: poll worker sneakily taking ballots labeled , and throwing them in the trash.

You realize how easy it is to do that with actors, right?

If it's so easy can you do it right now and show me the result? Hell, I'll even give you the whole day.
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