I'm sorry but that's a gross exageration. If any of this was real film then I'd start a gofundme page for OpenAI to get better video production equipment and team because that would be laughably bad.
If anything, it looks a lot worse than a lot of AI-generated videos I've seen in the past, despite being a tech demo with carefully curated shots. Veo 3 just blows this out of the water for example.
It's not an exaggeration to me? I literally stopped the video and went back to the start and re-read. You're more than welcome to speak about your opinions and experiences, but I'm speaking about mine.
I'm over here thinking, "It felt like just yesterday I was laughing at trippy, incoherent videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti."
I love the progress we're making. I love the competition between big companies trying to make the most appealing product demos. I love not knowing what the tech world is going to look like in six months. I love not thinking, "Man. The Internet was a cool invention to have grown up in, but now all tech is mundane and extractive." Every time I see AI progress I'm filled with childlike wonder that I thought was gone for good.
I don't know if this represent SOTA for video generation. I don't care. In that moment I found it impressive and was commenting specifically on the joy I experienced watching the video. I find it frustrating to have that joy met with such negativity.
Don't worry. AI is going to be monetized and extractive in no time. Just like Social Media went from "fresh, fun and cool new tech" to "how did we let this horrible beast take hold of the world," AI will take the same path. In 10 years or sooner, when 99.99% of what you read, hear, and watch is AI slop, you're going to post "This used to be a cool invention!" if there's even a place left for humans to post by that time.
I agree. It will absolutely get there. Such is the trend of all scientific inventions. A breakthroughs occurs, prosperity follows in response, hedonic adaption causes satisfaction to regress to the mean, and then people squeeze every remaining drop of value out of the technology while we wait for those capable of true innovation to work their magic once more. I don't find it idyllic, but I accept it as the way the world works. It feels like a force of nature to me.
The period we're in is fleeting. I think it should be acknowledged and treasured for what it is rather than viewed with disdain because of what is inevitably to come. I stopped using Facebook and never moved to Insta/TikTok when things began to feel too extractive, but, for a good decade there, I felt so close to so many more people than I ever thought possible. It was a really nice experience that I no longer get to have. I'm not mad at social media. I'm happy I got to experience that window of time.
Right now I'm very happy to be using LLMs without feeling like I'm being preyed upon. I love that programming feels fresh and new to me after 15 years. I'm looking forward to having my ability to self-express magnified ten-fold by leveraging generative audio/visuals, and I look forward to future breakthroughs that occur once all these inventions become glorified ad-delivery mechanisms.
None of this seems bad to me. Innovation and technological progress is responsible for every creature comfort I have experienced in my entire life. People deserve to make livings off of those things even if they weren't solely responsible for the innovation.
I fully understand the hype but the initial scene with Sam feels nothing like how any self respecting video producer would create. The jump cuts mid-sentence are extremely jarring, certainly not framed in any traditional sense, and he's almost entirely out of focus.
Points though for the completely expressionless line delivery, it completely nailed that.
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You obviously have never actually tried to make anything in AI video. It is a parlor trick.Maybe this is a big advance but the current state of AI video is a joke. It is only impressive if you don't actually make anything. It is impressive in a marketing release that is quickly forgot about.
Will Smith eating spaghetti is the dumbest most uncreative thing. You are impressed by it because it is a meme. It is stupid.
I didn't claim to have made anything with AI video. I'm just commenting on how rapidly things appear to be improving from an external viewpoint. We used to give AI crap for failing to generate an appropriate number of fingers on still imagery. Now we're watching multiple minutes of video to find handfuls of discontinuities. The goalposts have shifted pretty far in an exceptionally short amount of time.
I have no idea why you're so intent on coming across bitter about a fledgling technology. A few years ago this demo video would've been indistinguishable from magic. It will continue to improve.
I get what you're saying. I see it too. That said, a lot of people won't notice the flaws, especially with these fast, choppy cuts. By the time you realize the neck is way too long or whatever, its 2 cuts later.
It definitely doesnt look worse tbh. Its impressive stuff you cant get around that
Anecdotally, I forgot multiple times that I was watching AI generated content, and my partner tuning in and out of it asked me a few times if we were watching the demo (as opposed to the real video). We are both pretty sensitive to slop too. I think something has flipped here.
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Let me tell you, I wish I was paid by OpenAI, but unfortunately I get paid a very average wage in a country where OpenAI do not operate.
You can look at my account history and see that there is absolutely no indication that I am paid for, or a bot, I just happen to be relatively enthusiastic and bullish on AI capabilities. My account is 5 years old.
I do not think this product from OpenAI will be good for the world, I think it is mostly a very bad thing. I just think it is impressive.
I encourage you to try make the most generous interpretation of my comment and try to consider that other people can have sometimes wildly different experiences to you, however hard that is to believe. The alternative is to accuse people of being paid for commentors, which benefits no one and just isolates you further.
To add more nuance to my original comment, yes if you look closely at the videos it is clear that they are AI generated, but as I was watching I 'lapsed' out of attention a few times and had to remind myself what I was looking at was generated. If I stopped and rewound a few times, yes of course I could notice the slop. But my point is that it's the first time I have lost the "I am watching slop" thought while watching AI video.
Hope that clears things up for you.
Edit: I just looked through your comment history, you are an extreme AI perma bear, and that's ok, that doesn't mean you're a paid for anti-ai lobbyist. Also every single comment you have made is extremely negative and inflammatory.
I encourage you to revise your communication methods and try to practice some kindness.
No, the average person just doesn't have a creative bone in their body. They will be impressed when they get Super Hero movie #1899 but this time by AI , woo hoo!
Now that will be progress!
I am creative and have released music with a large listenership. The other person in my original comment is a designer by trade. Anything else dismissive you’d like to say or do you enjoy leaving snarky comments?