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This kind of AI stuff bums me out. You get people legitimately sharing AI images (and potentially videos in the future) and saying "look what I made!". It's totally inauthentic.
My boss loves this shit, on the other hand. Looking forward to the day she can automate our jobs away, I assume.
Genuine question: why do we need this type of thing?
Especially in view of the harm it can cause, what's the point of creating this aside from generating shareholder value?
Sure, creating a video out of text quickly is cool, but is there an actual need for this?
I mean, the ability to generate whatever video you want without having to pay the costs normally associated with filming, location, actors etc is going to be very appealing to people like advertisers. This way you can have a few seconds of a beach for your travel company advert, for example, without having to pay for the stock footage or film it yourself. In fact I can see this transforming stock footage in general. Why bother to pay someone to make a generic video of 'people having a meeting' when an AI can do it for free in half the time. Doesn't even need to be that good if you're only using it briefly in a presentation. Not saying any of this is a good thing, but here we are..
I get what you're saying, but there isn't really any NEED for that
It may help to make synthetic training data for other models / simulators
Which then just feeds to the system. But as this is a globally impactful thing, is there any real world need that outweighs the harm?
I looked at these videos with very mixed emotions. On the one hand, I marveled at how far we've gotten. In a few years we went from generating sort of okay images in a very confined domain and essentially uncontrollable, to generating high resolution video that on first glance looks real.
But then the sadness struck me. I think we're entering the post-truth era, where the truth is harder and harder to find because all the fake stuff looks so real. We can generate text, images, sound, and now also video of whatever we want in the blink of an eye. Combine this with the tendency of people to accept any "information" that fits their view, and the filter bubbles that already exist, and we can see that humanity will start living in separate bubbles. Every bubble will have their own truth, and even if someone proves that a video or image is fake, that information will probably not even reach them because the truth doesn't generate enough clicks.
I want to stay optimistic, we've overcome so much stuff as a species, maybe we'll right the ship at some point. But with all the shit that is already going on in the world, the last thing we need is the ability to fake videos like this in no time at all. At some point the separate filter bubbles will tear our stable western world as we knew it apart, and we'll see shit like WW II again. The situation is already heating up.
Sounds like what the board of openai thought when they attempted to fire him
Damn, the AI that wrote this is really good!
Haha thanks
Every day were getting closer to "The Running Man."
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Another stepping stone to a much worse world. We won't know what is real anymore.
I think it's very cool technology, but in the hands of governments and psyops, it's going to brainwash entire countries.
Want another 9/11? Sure no problem. Blow up a building, tell people you have some random video of what happened, captured by civilians...place evidence in locations where it will be found.
We already don't know what is real. This will only make that clearer.
I think some governments already had tech like this but not all.
It will be interesting to follow this. Probably lots of fake videos on YouTube as a consequence where events are not real but used to stir up aggression.
Maybe, but I doubt it, only because traditional propaganda has been %100 effective without generative AI.
OpenAI singlehandedly breaking the internet. Props, tbh.
They really are. I don't know about Google but with DDG when searching for information I feel like most of the top results are articles written by AI. Luckily it's still somewhat easy to recognize but that's not going to be the case for long. It's inevitable though so I don't really blame them. If not OpenAI then it would have just been someone else. I'm just worried about where this is going. I can think of more ways this could go wrong than right.
Isn't this a bit over dramatic, seeing as we had deepfake tech for a while now?
Imagine generating 5,000 videos of different people (likenesses pulled from Facebook) reacting to a fake calamity staged in a certain city.
I don’t think so, as deep fake stuff was about switching faces and voices. You needed actual footage to train this on.
So if you wanted to stage something, it would take considerable effort, money, time, and manpower.
Now anyone will be able to just type in a prompt and have a video generated.
We saw the Joe Biden deepfake that made calls to tell people not to vote for him. Now just wait until we are having videos of him saying it sent out in mass.
