Sora-ing high … my husband @CTGT and I were thrilled to add a lifer to our list this weekend, an adult Sora and three of her adorable fluffy black chicks. Tiny and skulky, she was fleet of foot - not hard with those big green puppies - in this shallow marshy pond, especially chasing off an encroaching American Robin that was also foraging for worms. Cropped photo collage in the comments if you’re interested in a closer look.
@eay Musste ich spontan an einen meiner Lieblingsfilme, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, denken. Solche psychedelisch Traumartigen Übergänge haben was faszinierendes für mich.
My take on #Sora and #AI generated media is, we're asking the wrong questions - as usual. It's not whether AI can replace directors, writers, editors and actors.
It can't.
The real question is - does it matter?
What were going to see, for some time anyway, is overproduction of content. Unspecific, frictionless mush to be displayed between ads. What we increasingly see on streaming platforms is approaching that nadir right now.
Generated slop for the masses, "artisanal" media for the elite.
“AI” as currently hyped is giant billion dollar companies blatantly stealing content, disregarding licenses, deceiving about capabilities, and burning the planet in the process.
It is the largest theft of intellectual property in the history of humankind, and these companies are knowingly and willing ignoring the licenses, terms of service, and laws that us lowly individuals are beholden to.
It’s a shame that the industry is in the midst of such a circlejerk around the term “AI,” too, because I think a lot of machine learning is genuinely incredible and is the most underappreciated (and often invisible) aspect of a bunch of technology we use: our cameras, keyboards, copy/paste, voice recognition, smart homes, and more are often powered by machine learning models.
But let’s call everything “AI” now because a bunch of billion dollar companies decided it’s a fun space to compete in.
I guess we wait this one out until the “AI” bubble bursts due to the incredible subsidization the entire industry is undergoing. It is not profitable. It is not sustainable.
It will not last—but the damage to our planet and fallout from the immense amount of wasted resources will.
"#OpenAI is now actively pitching studios on #Sora. But nothing I’ve seen so far has convinced me that Sora has any real utility beyond, once again, low-grade crap.
Which is certainly true in the case of "Late Night with the Devil". The AI interstitials aren’t so awful that they break the whole movie…but they do stick out like a sore thumb…
Is the quick fix worth it? #moviestudios are about to discover it’s not."
#AI#GenerativeAI#OpenAI#Sora#YouTube#Copyright: "The use of YouTube videos to train OpenAI’s text-to-video generator would be an infraction of the platform's terms of service, YouTube Chief Executive Officer Neal Mohan said.
In his first public remarks on the topic, Mohan said he had no firsthand knowledge of whether OpenAI had, in fact, used YouTube videos to refine its artificial intelligence-powered video creation tool, called Sora. But if that were the case, it would be a “clear violation” of YouTube’s terms of use, he said.
“From a creator’s perspective, when a creator uploads their hard work to our platform, they have certain expectations,” Mohan said Thursday in an interview with Emily Chang, host of Bloomberg Originals. “One of those expectations is that the terms of service is going to be abided by. It does not allow for things like transcripts or video bits to be downloaded, and that is a clear violation of our terms of service. Those are the rules of the road in terms of content on our platform.”" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-04/youtube-says-openai-training-sora-with-its-videos-would-break-the-rules
#Sora CTO seems like she's generated by AI herself. The moment it's asked anything specific, it just freezes for a minute and then starts spewing bullshit.
Faszinierend und beängstigend: Mit der OpenAI-Software "Sora" lassen sich durch einfache Textbefehle Videos erstellen, die täuschend echt aussehen.
Das eröffnet Gefahren der Manipulation, aber auch kreative Möglichkeiten. Die Gefahr von Missbrauch ist hoch - gerade in einem "Superwahljahr" wie diesem. Noch ist die Nutzung Testern vorbehalten.
Following the emergence of AI image generators last year, the introduction of #Sora last week gives us now access to text-to-video generators. Would you guess what our take is on this?