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Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal::The new Pika 1.0 tool comes after a $55 million funding round for the generative AI company and is a big step up in AI video production.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is this going to be available for free? And if so, to what extent? I'm not paying for AI, but would be cool to try it out.

I've also been burnt a few times by registering for some "free" AI service only to realise after putting in some actual effort into trying to create something that literally any actual value you might extract from it is gated behind a payment plan. This was the case when I tried generating voices, for example: spend an hour crafting something I like; generating any actual audio with it? Pay up. It's like trying out a free MMO where you spend a long time creating your character just the way you want it only to be greeted by "trial over - subscribe now!"

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Definitely not but there are already free models available from other companies.

There's is stable video diffusion which is image to video. There is also anim diff, which is built of stable diffusion 1.5 and lets you do quite a lot. Both need a quality graphics card but you can run them using a service like runpod for a dollar an hour or so. Runpod lets you rent GPUs, so it's not like those scammy AI sites. All of this takes a bit of know how though, it isn't as easy as using a paid service like pika.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Cool, another step in the ruining art with AI saga

These are all short clips because they look like ass if you get enough time to actually look at them. But even still, can people just stop with this shit?

Let people do the one truely human thing ffs.

Edit: Let me be clear, AI has good uses. My only argument here is that generating art is not one, especially when the training data is stolen and used for profit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No one is stopping people from making art, lazy people will use this to do things they want, but artists will make art because that's what they do.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

All it means is that at art as a career is dead.

Guess we want everyone working in retail or something

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't everyone want to be a creative? Turns out you gotta be able to afford it. I work for a living. If everyone worked for a living, I could afford some time and space to myself to do what I like with it. Unfortunately work supports art and people are trying to pass off their fun time as a contribution so I'm supporting them regardless. I'd rather everyone supported themselves so I can art without anyone else's input.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

I don't like this, because one of the most used arguments in favor of capitalism is supposedly the free market and how you are allowed to make money doing what you like. If now it turns out that only a few things are classified as jobs then... where are the benefits of capitalism?