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Animate Anyone 2: High-Fidelity Character Image Animation
- ioulaum 2y agoWonder if they're planning to release code. I imagine some opensource player will try to recreate their model themselves too.
- echelon 2y agoAlibaba and Ant Group don't release their code and weights, but Tencent sure does. I bet Tencent has one of these waiting in the wings.
- JohnHaugeland 2y agoUnreleased models should not be treated as interesting
- xnx 2y agoVery impressive improvement over Viggle. I don't know if Viggle was considered sota previously, but it's certainly had its moment of popularity at the end of last year. Tech has come a long way since Monty-Python style JibJab from 2004.
- joshdavham 2y ago> Tech has come a long way since Monty-Python style JibJab from 2004. No doubt! I'm surprised people even remember JibJab.
- echelon 2y agoIt's better than Viggle, but Alibaba doesn't release their models like Tencent does. Waiting for the Tencent version of this. It feels like Tencent releases a new model or two every single week. If they do release an equivalent, everyone will be able to clone Viggle's entire product offering. Models are becoming commodity faster than ever these days. We had five foundation video models come out last week. I don't know how Runway ML, with their $300M of fundraising, will be able to stay ahead or raise again. They don't have any special magic, and there's nothing spectacular about their product. I wouldn't want to be a foundation model company these days. China and any third string company release weights openly to gain network effects and salt the earth for foundation model value accretion. Product and brand awareness are all that matters. Edit: if anyone from Alibaba or Ant Group is reading, can you release your code and weights? Pretty please?
- joshdavham 2y agoBesides just being really cool, what are some of the clearest use-cases for this?
- johnnyanmac 2y agoIf this has anything close to usable rigging data (from what I briefly read, it doesn't seem to), this would be a cheap pipeline for generating animations for real time applications out of video references. As it is, it seems like it might help for video editing and VFX. Being able to isolate out a human being lets you do all sorts of editing with less issues that can then be composited over later for a final shot.
- radley 2y agoIt also makes previz much easier. Stand-ins can run through the shots, including stunts. Then the main actors can be swapped in to provide a clearer estimate of what it would look like.
- listenallyall 2y agoCatfishing Convincing older people that their children/relatives are in jail/hospital/kidnapped and need money Disinformation/chaos by faking important speeches by politicians Fake celebrity endorsements of products and causes Rewriting historical events with "newly uncovered" footage Other creative ways of ripping people off and lying
- tetris11 2y ago> Disinformation/chaos by faking important speeches by politicians I do wonder what the end game here would be. A race to the bottom where any televised speech is brought into question. I wonder if that would destabilize all power bases to the point that people will finally look at the actions of their politicians rather than their words. Wishful thinking perhaps.
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- azalemeth 2y agoI really wouldn't use Donald Trump as an example character model...
- Mekoloto 2y agowhy?
- Timwi 2y agoI'm not OP but I imagine they might be thinking that Trump will find a way to punish it, with him being a fascist and all. Just imagine you'd had done this with Hitler in 1932. By 1934 your life would basically be over.
- Mekoloto 2y agoIf people already assume this, the right response is to use him for everything and starting to stand up in form of a protest
- jillyboel 2y agoI never thought americans were this weak and pathetic. Y'all always screamed about "muh guns" and stuff like that, but now... You're just sitting idly while your new king takes over, even discouraging others to do anything that may upset your supreme ruler?
- NikolaNovak 2y ago(To be fair, though I'm not in USA / an American, if we're going to stereotype and generalize unfairly, it seems it's largely the "Muh Guns" folks you refer to that support/vote for Trump and the like).
- Geee 2y agoThese people who complain are the guys who don't have guns.
- BtM909 2y agoFirst of all, this looks very impressive (besides that it will be used for memes, haha), but can someone explain why the faces and movements look almost cartoon-like?
- cornedor 2y agoLight doesn't match up at all (look at the Ronaldo example) and the animation is far from perfect. Go through the one with the joker frame-by-frame, and you can see his arms moving through his body and stuff like that.
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- lacoolj 2y agoSo I guess we're just about 2 or 3 iterations away from no longer being able to trust video as evidence in a courtroom. Just gotta fix the lighting and facial issues and bam! Precedent will be set.
- hassleblad23 2y agoI think we have already crossed that threshold. There are videos today that you'd have a hard time telling if they are AI generated. Not always, but sometimes.
- littlestymaar 2y agoIt's been decades since we haven't been able to blindly trust image and videos in court, image and video manipulation are almost as old as photography and cinema. And paper documents are still being used on court today despite being trivially counterfeit. Why so? Because court never trust documents blindly, the defendant can always object that it is fake and try and question their origin. If the concerns are deemed legitimate by the court, the document is going to be rejected (and an investigation will occur and the producer of the fake document will be charged heavily).
- BizarroLand 2y agoIt depends on the court. Typically evidence is shared with the opposing parties before the court assembles. If there is damning evidence like video of you dancing with the Joker, your side will have an opportunity to preview the video, examine it for being deepfaked, and have a chance to either try to exclude it or possibly will let it slide so that your experts can expose it in trial for being a fake, which could be a strong point in your favor. From my experience juries are not smart, but if you can show them they've been lied to they will destroy the side that lied to them, not to mention the punishments for lawyers that try to use AI technology to obtain verdicts in their favor by deception.
- slothtrop 2y agoWhat's the digital signature equivalent of yellow ink for printers?
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