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VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion
- twoodfin 6mo agoThe idea of applying this modern magic to history & art is horrifying. The dream of Minitrue! Presumably Netflix wants to erase smoking from its back catalog or some other bit of papier-mâché Stalinism. Oh well, neat bit of auto-regressive theater.
- echelon 6mo agoCogVideoX continues to be an academic powerhouse model. So many papers built on this little thing.
- _iya3 6mo ago[flagged]
- yieldcrv 6mo agoAlso lets them quickly censor things the West doesn’t like, as a client state of particular nations in the Middle East VPN sometime if you have doubts about that in western media, including US
- cyanydeez 6mo ago[flagged]
- postsantum 6mo agoState-approved VPN would alter the video and stream it to you. This is the only way to stay on the right side of the history
- the_af 6mo agoWhy China? I see this being used in many countries, especially in the West. We've crashed head straight into a dystopian future. But worry not! The crash can be edited out of reality.
- conception 6mo agoWhich films have had items censored out of them for release?
- ipaddr 6mo agohttps://www.imdb.com/list/ls033928706/ https://www.imdb.com/list/ls033928706/ Netflix: 13 Reasons Why: Following concerns from mental health professionals, Netflix edited the first-season finale in 2019 to remove a graphic scene depicting the main character’s suicide. Back to the Future Part II: In May 2020, it was discovered that a scene involving an adult magazine cover was censored in certain regions. Netflix stated they had received an edited foreign version from the studio and later restored the original scene. Bird Box: Following public outcry in 2018, Netflix agreed to remove footage from the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster used in the film's scenes, as it was deemed insensitive. The Devil Next Door: In 2019, Netflix added extra text to a map in this documentary series after complaints from the Polish Prime Minister regarding the portrayal of Nazi death camps. Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj: An episode critical of the Saudi Arabian government was removed in Saudi Arabia in 2019 after a government takedown request.
- brokensegue 6mo agonone of that is censorship
- the_af 6mo ago> Which films have had items censored out of them for release? I said "I see this being used" as an idiom for "this is likely to be used soon" ("I see this happening in the near future"), not that I've seen this used already. But, like the commenter who responded to you showed, movies already get edited to censor things.
- rohmanhm 6mo agoThis will save a lot of money for the prod house, considering each country may have different censorship rules.
- jchip303 6mo ago[dead]
- orbital-decay 6mo agoReally weird comments here. It's a VFX technique for cinematography, one of many of that kind (e.g. supporting wire removal). Cinematography in general is about showing something that doesn't exist, unless it's a documentary. Your only reaction is apparently calling censorship. Says a lot about the current Overton window and I think it's something you should reflect on.
- twoodfin 6mo agoNo, I get it, and the benefits of putting what would have required a professional VFX team at (eventually) the fingertips of every amateur filmmaker are amazing. It’s also alarming what’s possible when reassembling photons en masse becomes commoditized.
- TeMPOraL 6mo ago> It’s also alarming what’s possible when reassembling photons en masse becomes commoditized. Photons Be Free?
- dullcrisp 6mo agoYes but imagine how bad Stalin’s reign of terror would have been with modern cinematographic techniques.
- dryarzeg 6mo agoYes but why are we required to imagine only this? With this logic, why won't we try to imagine how bad Stalin's (or Hitler's, or anyone's) reign of terror would be with state-controlled social media? With state-censored Internet (that's about current Russia, by the way)? With modern communication technologies et al. and so on? Hell yeah, let's go back to the caves just because science, technology and progress can actually empower everyone, including dictators, maniacs, psychopaths, predators and "bad people et al.", not just "good" (the definition of "good" varies, but let's assume we're using common principles of goodness) people.
- orbital-decay 6mo ago
- faangguyindia 6mo agosoo basically, they'll replace "coke can" with "redbull" or similar depending on who pays for ads in video? what else they gonna use it for?
- teaearlgraycold 6mo agoI can see this being one of many AI tools for video editors. Combined with a handful of other tricks an SFX shop should have a tremendously higher productivity.
- gfody 6mo agoultimately we could get 4K remasters of old movies/shows where it's currently not worth redoing the FX
- SquareWheel 6mo agoRemoving film crew, boom mics, and missed props from a scene would surely be useful to studios. It may even enable some shots that previously would have been impossible due to the positioning of cameras, etc.
- hatmanstack 6mo agoWould make economic sense for a ton more of "Choose your own Adventure" content I can imagine watching Bandersnatch and getting rid of the game developer in frame 1. The remaining 90 minutes, his dad having a quiet, stress-free Tuesday.
- postsantum 6mo agoRemoved brain cancer from xray films Enjoying 5 seasons of chemistry lessons
- hatmanstack 6mo agoRemoved the mother. Enjoying 9 seasons of a man cornering his teenagers on a couch, describing every woman he's ever dated.
- pants2 6mo agoRemoved the ring. Just watching three movies of Frodo and friends living life in Hobbiton.
- hatmanstack 6mo agoRemoved the zombies. Just a guy in a sheriff's hat losing every group vote on where to camp next.
- hatmanstack 6mo agoRemoved the island. Now it's just a surgeon, a lottery winner, and a man carrying 40 knives all trying to get through TSA.
- dpflan 6mo agoReminded me of "Garfield Minus Garfield" - https://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ https://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ """ Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb. """
- teaearlgraycold 6mo agoI don't see any demos. Did I miss something? Not interested in running a Colab.
- mkl 6mo agoYou missed the embedded video near the top.
- teaearlgraycold 6mo agoThanks. Shockingly the GitHub iOS app just completely omits that.
- RunningDroid 6mo agoThe Android app does the same thing
- arjie 6mo agoWoah, this is absolutely sick! 10 years ago me would have been surprised something so small can encode all the world knowledge necessary to make this plausible. That they'd make this openly available is a dream.
- nine_k 6mo agoI don't think it can continue the no-interaction line too far. This may be enough for movie-making purposes though.
- d--b 6mo agoYay! More tools for faking stuff!
- snthpy 6mo agoAnyone who's ever had a break up will thank you.
- Rebuff5007 6mo agoVery interesting discrepancy in the attached example: - "removing the kettlebell" led to removing the visual representation of the kettlebell as well the deformation it makes on the pillow - "removing the hands" removed the childs hands from the tops, but did not then lead to the tops falling over! Others like the colliding cars are in some weird gray area between the two. One should note as these tools proliferate, there is a lot of artistic expression that we are giving up to these imprecise natural language parsing engines.
- hdjrudni 6mo agoI think we'll regain the artistic expression/control in the future if the tools become popular. We saw this with StableDiffusion. First it was just text-to-image. Now we have controlnets which can control the precise placement of objects. We've got depth maps, body positioning, all kinds of things. I can even sketch on my tablet and tunr that into an image. I'm sure we can add options for what this physically affects or doesn't affect.