Because if we don't build and profit from the Torment Nexus, someone else will
And that Torment Nexus will kill everyone who didn't put their best into making that Torment Nexus a reality.
That’s Roku’s Basilisk
What about Roku's Torment Nexus?
Because capitalism can't wait to completely get rid of this pesky workers.
I don't think there is a good reason. It's an interesting ability for a model. I can see the appeal why people are interested in much the same way I can understand why people climb mountains. Wouldn't wanna do it myself but I can see why you like it kind of way. For me this falls into the category of "the general public doesn't need to have access to this." I get mad when I hear people talk about it in terms of what is and isn't allowed in it. "And then I tried to put a light saber in it and that was okay but I couldn't make me into Super Mario." You just created enough heat in a server farm that will kill a polar bear, that needs to be cooled with future drinking water we need to desalinate, and you have huffed some more air in the hyped up bubble economy surrounding so-called AI. All so you can see where the model draws the copyright line? And if you think that I was modest in my hyperbole, you'll probably agree with me when I say in a similar spirit that we as a species deserve to eradicate ourselves off this planet.
The so-called AI peddlers have the same problem as news peddlers online. It's fucking hard to turn users into paying subscribers. And they need to turn a profit at some point. It's the merciless mechanics of capitalism that dumps all these models on an unprepared general public at dumping prices. A drive to increase shareholder value above any other consideration. It's time to change that.
And I'm not opposed to this model existing. Research it, fine tune it, offer it for the actual cost you're running in the background plus a bit of a profit margin. And when it costs $207.40 per month to make these brief videos, I'd be okay with that. It would price out enough users not to undo any of the insufficient climate saving measures we as a species have already implemented.
Just going to drop this wiki link, so people know the precident set with this case is one of the driving causes for our current misery.
The general public won’t have access to it. They are locking it down more and more.
Governments, corps, the elite will have access though. That seems worse than open access to me.
High demand will drive efficiency gains in subsequent generations of technology. It'll be like how processors today use a tiny fraction of the power that processors a decade ago used for the same amount of work. Better instruction sets, architectures and smaller lithography has driven efficient and competitive computing. Similar will happen for AI processors
Sure, but that will only serve to make it more accessible and widely used. AI is still going to keep wasting immense amounts of energy.
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hank is hero
Embrace this shit because the fascists 100% are. Use it, learn its limitations. Make sure you keep people informed about it.
Am I the only one who can't stand the editing / presentation here? He gave me a migraine in less than 60 seconds.
It's a bit excessive for my taste as well. Traditionally if you felt the need to cut this much just to make the sentence come out the way you want, you'd just do another take instead of making this many cuts in post. Over-cutting of spacing also makes the pacing a bit too "word-vomit" rather than "polished" imo.
I imagine this is more normalized in stereotypically "zoomer" presentation of video content, but it might also just be this guy (or their editor's) style.
He's cutting out the annoying filler words "um" "uh" etc and useless quiet/dead air. So yes you are the only one.
Ok, lol, thanks for confirming
Filler words makes a piece feel more human. Ironically cutting out human tics in favour of a more sterlised presentation yet criticising AI, how ironic.
I'm not a fan either. It's especially weird to me since SciShow (his main channel I guess) has the complete opposite style.
Hank's videos are like that. I get stressed watching his scishow stuff too, but deal with it because the content is really interesting.
Yeah, for the part I could watch, it sounded interesting.
Oh wait, you said should, not why.
Give me a single reason why Sora2 why exist.
Because it’s incredible technology that can revolutionise the film/media industry.
I mean, I’m as big a ML fans as you’ll find on Lemmy, but this is a slop machine to build some Altman hype.
A controllable, integrated version as a tool, with augmentations like VACE or SDXLs controlnet would be neat. Thats also great because it’s not so easy for 1 click zero effort automated spam, which is by far Sora's largest market as is.
…And guess what. We have that, it’s neat already, it’s open weights, it's improving, and it’s not so controversial/abused because there’s an actual tiny barrier of entry to using it, like Davinci Resolve vs instagram filters.
The less barriers to entry the better for something like this. Imagine all the people who have always wanted to make movies/tv shows but haven't had the ability to who could use these tools to make pilots/trailer to sell to studios, or even create full series/movies to self-publish.
Trying to put barriers and "controls" in front of it purely because you don't like that it can be used to make "slop" is dumb.
And that’s why Sora sucks, because it’s censored, closed weights, totally opaque, largely toolless, and peddled like spam.
Sora is the very beginning, just the first step.
Well the first step was into a fucking cow pie, so that doesn't bode well for the next one
Huh? The first step is basically immediate generation of video that looks real.
What on earth are you talking about?
First step is to make slop feeds full of bullshit.
slop feeds full of bullshit
That look incredible though. That's the point - now people can make incredible stylized or realistic videos with nothing more than a few words and a few seconds wait.
You're like someone complaining about a technology like raytracing because all you saw was some devs use it to do a few shadows and cut their framerate in half. You can't see the big picture. You can't see that with every medium there is "slop" - there are terrible writers writing books, it's not just all new york times best sellers. There is terrible music, not just grammy winners. AI video generation will have tonnes and tonnes of crap, but it will also have masterpieces.
AI video generation will have tonnes and tonnes of crap, but it will also have masterpieces.
Doubt.
You can make movies with e-waste tech these days. There is no barrier to entry.
People who don't have the drive to make things without AI well never produce anything of value with AI.
You can make movies with e-waste tech these days. There is no barrier to entry.
You've never been able to make and iterate as quickly with as high quality as you can using current video generation AI tools. That's fact.
What "e-waste tech" do you think you can make full scenes with realistic people and CGI with?
Smart phones record exceptionally high quality video. Free and open source CGI software can be run on older computers.
People who want to make stuff will find a way to do it.
Lazy people who want to feel special will generate AI slop.
Free and open source CGI software can be run on older computers.
And take years to learn how to use well, compared to literally seconds of using an AI video generation tool. Then there's the actual rendering and iteration, which can now be seconds versus hours/days.
Lazy people who want to feel special will generate AI slop.
People who want to make stuff will be able to make amazing stuff with ease with AI.
You AI haters are all so closed minded, only capable of thinking of the lowest common denominator. Who cares if people make AI "slop" when there will also be visionaries making mind blowing stuff with AI?
And take years to learn how to use well
Heaven fucking forbid that a person dedicates themself to learning a perfecting a craft. Meanwhile, you sloppers are out here thinking you're gonna take over the entertainment industry with your, "Yo Sora, make me a movie that's like Pulp Fiction crossed with Fight Club with supernatural elements."
Who cares if people make AI “slop” when there will also be visionaries making mind blowing stuff with AI?
Because that's all that it's good for. Every year it's, "Oh this is going to be so much better in 6 months, bro. It'll be able to generate full movies by then, for sure, bro." And every year it does get better, but it's still complete and utter garbage. It's still slop.
And even if it's not slop, LLM tech is basically just a repackaged soulless slurry of existing media. Unless there is a fundamental breakthrough in AI tech, it will always be that. LLMs just work that way. It is a limitation of the technology.
If you can't see that, then you truly don't understand what this tech is.
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