These videos are a very impressive engineering feat. There are a lot of uses for this capability that will be beneficial to society, and in the coming years people will come up with more good uses nobody today has thought of yet.
But clearly we also see some major downsides. We already have an epidemic of social media rotting people's minds, and everything about this capability is set to supercharge these trends. OpenAI addresses some of these concerns, but there's absolutely no reason to think that OpenAI will do anything other than what they perceive as whatever makes them the most money.
An analogy would be a company coming up with a way to synthesize and distribute infinite high-fructose corn syrup. There are positive aspects to cheaply making sweet tasting food, but we can also expect some very adverse effects on nutritional health. Sora looks like the equivalent for the mind.
There's an optimistic take on this fantastic new technology making the world a better place for all of us in the long run, after society and culture have adapted to it. It's going to be a bumpy ride before we get there.
I actually wonder if this will kill off the social apps and the bragging that happens. It will be flooded by people faking themselves doing the unimaginable.
This is also my thesis. The internet is going to be saturated with AI slop indiscernible from real content. Once it reaches a tipping point, there will no longer be much of a reason to consume the content at all. I think social networks that can authenticate video/photo/text content as human-created will be a major trend in a few years.
I have no clue if the reactions are real, but there are some videos online of people showing their grandparents gameplay from Grand Theft Auto games trying to convince them that it is real footage. The point of the videos is to laugh at their reactions where they question if it really happened, etc.
Maybe this will result in something similar, but it can affect more people who aren’t as wary.
Right now with kids, the current trend is to prank their parents using Gemini into thinking they let a homeless guy in their house
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/ai-homeless-people-in-my-hou...
Heh, fast forward a few years and nobody’s surprised anymore when someone falls for a video which is the result of two sentences long instruction.
Depending on which internet you do mean, cause meta & insta are NOT THE Internet.
there will be billions of people consuming the content
But then you’re creating an incentive for the AI slop to become so realistic it is indistinguishable from actual video.
Unless there some fundamental, technical way to distinguish the two, I wonder who would win?
I regularly get AI movie recaps on my shorts and I just eat it up.
The very fact that I (or billions of others) waste time on shorts is an issue. I don't even play games anymore, it's just shorts. That is a concerning rewiring of the brain :/
Guess what I`m trying to say is that, there is a market out there. It's not pretty, but there certainly is.
Will keep trying to not watch these damn shorts...
there would need to be cameras that can cryptographically sign videos with trusted vendor keys, or perhaps there is some other solution.
This is what https://c2pa.org/ is for. I think some camera vendors already have support.
Yes, I wonder if the content distribution networks that call themselves "social networks" can even survive something like this.
Of course, the ones focusing on the content can always editorialize the spam out. And in real social networks you ask your friends to stop making that much slop. But this can be finally the end of Facebook-like stuff.
> There are a lot of uses for this capability that will be beneficial to society
Are there? “A lot” of them? Please name a few that will be more beneficial than the very obvious detrimental uses like “making up life-destroying lies about your political opponents or groups of people you want to vilify” or “getting away with wrongdoing by convincing the judge a real video of yourself is a deepfake”.
That last one has already ben tried, by the way.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/27/elon-musk...
It can generate funny videos of bald JD Vance and Harry Potter characters for TikTok. Which makes me wonder, what is the actual plan to make money off these models? Billions have been invested but the only thing they seem to be capable of is shitposting and manipulation. Where is the money going to come from?
> There are a lot of uses for this capability that will be beneficial to society
Please enlighten me. What are they? If my elderly grandma is on her deathbed and I have no way to get to see her before she passes, will she get more warmth and fond memories of me with a clip of my figure riding an AI generated dragon saying goodbye, or a handwritten letter?
What about a new electric guitar? Your grandma wouldn't want that on her deathbed so it's useless? Cmon man.
Still zero responses, eh? My example was charged but I clearly had a point: how does AI fill a void where meaning should be, over what has worked for centuries? How is it better than face to face, or a handwritten letter?
I don't think anyone is saying it is.
> There are a lot of uses for this capability that will be beneficial to society
My original question was asking for examples of this. Try to keep up, c'mon man
Suno allows me to rapidly flesh out demos and brainstorm. Played music my whole life manually. Easier for me to find what I'm looking for and while avoiding demo love.