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mk  ·  310 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: OpenAI's Sora

This technology is in its infancy and it can make videos from short text prompts and you think its going to look anything like this in 10 years? You could make a strong case against YouTube in 1995. It's not going to make storyboards, it's going to churn out movies and commercials by the millions and they might be individualized for each viewer.





kleinbl00  ·  310 days ago  ·  link  ·  

To the contrary - LLMs for entertainment date back to 2016.

"we're just getting started" has been the plea of AI since Robert Mercer unleashed Markov bots on the stock market in 1996 or so. "Youtube in 1995" is eight full years before Google opened an unlimited data spigot for people to upload video; OpenAI was founded in 2015 and nine years later, Altman's out here asking for 10% of global GDP to continue.

Also, what do you think is the point of movies and commercials? Do you think people experience them in a vacuum? Or does shared experience factor into it? We have fuckall enough to talk about around the water cooler anymore but at least we all watched the same Squid Game. "Hey MK we made this dick pill ad just for you" is about as creepy a thing as a company can do; we're already wrapped around the wheel with paranoia that Facebook is listening to our phones how are we gonna do when it starts talking back?

Coca Cola runs their 90s vintage polar bears while Pepsi individually targets every single Facebook user with an unsupervised, unmonitored AI commercial based on their cookies. Who do you think sells more cola? And who do you think gets more complaints and reports from the undiluted nightmare fuel polluted into the timeline?