The main lesson I learned from the March ChatGPT image generation launch - which signed up 100 million new users in the first week - is that people love being able to generate images of their friends and family (and pets).
I expect the "cameo" feature is an attempt at capturing that viral magic a second time.
Nano Banana finally got people to install Gemini.
Since when have to install Gemini? I’ve been using it via the web
A surprisingly large number of people use only installable apps. It's a crazy world out there.
Most people in the world only have a phone, no computer. Their window to software is the App Store or Play Store.
Fortunately, you don't need permission from pets to use them in an AI video. (unless PETA objects)
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The Sora 2 system card claims Sora can resist generations of "political persuasion".
https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/50d5973c-c4ff-4c2d-986f-c72b5d0ff...
> The Sora 2 system card claims Sora can resist generations of "political persuasion".
To actually do that, it would need to have the evolving contextual knowledge of current events and the reasoning power to be able to identify prompts which, when requested, would likely have use in political persuasion, which would be a bigger breakthrough in AI than anything they are promoting.
Conclusion: it can’t actually meaningfully do that, though it will probably reject some subset of prompts involving topics pre-identified to it as politically sensitive.
"claims" <- that's the lie right there
True, but our old technology like radios has been doing that for a long time too.
This is a good point. It is hard not to see this tiktok video of an unblinking man smiling at a soft focus sasquatch and think of Marconi’s first broadcast across the Atlantic. I challenge any man to look at this unsettling video of a dog astronaut and not compare it in his mind to the first integrated circuit, or alternating current.
That's not what I'm saying, I'm saying many technologies enable a slide into fascism, and not having AI until a couple years ago didn't seem to solve the problem.
I like this reasoning. If a thing doesn’t exist, and doesn’t cause a problem, then when it does exist it won’t cause a problem. Like for example people died in wars before the invention of the machine gun, therefore machine guns didn’t really kill a significant number of people.
While I'm glad you had fun crafting an annoying reply, that's not analogous to what I said.
Your point was either that the fake video of a guy doing a backflip is the same thing as the invention of the radio or that if something bad is happening, nothing that happens can make it worse. Or somehow video generation software would have solved fascism in advance by previously not existing, which is proof that it is now good.
The first two are very smart but if you were talking plainly about the outcomes of time travel paradoxes I apologize for missing that
Incredibly, my point was none of those, as you well know!
Not at the same scale