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by echelon 2y ago
> humans are just acting as the director of that AI. My pro-AI director friends tell me this is ultimately what they've been doing with humans all along. Sometimes he humans don't give them what they're looking for, so the
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by echelon 2y ago
> Yes I exclude that, So humans steering diffusion is off limits? No Krea, no Invoke, no articulated humans? It's like you're taking away Premiere or Final Cut here. Text prompts are not the currency of AI film. Controllability
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by echelon 2y ago
This already happens without AI, it's just that studios can only produce so many films given the budget, labor, and time constraints. Tell me that any of the "Jurassic Park" films beyond the first were necessary. Or the &quot
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by echelon 2y ago
> By that, I mean something where either the dialog or the video (or both) is completely done by AI. I don't think LLMs can write nuanced character arcs, so let's not include them. On the subject of the visuals being completely
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by echelon 2y ago
It's super early, and a lot of artists have issues with controllability that make the tools hard to incorporate. This is quickly changing. Here's a really small scoped short film made with the limited tools available half a year a
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by echelon 2y ago
100%. The back catalogue will have a few scattered gems that you can find amongst the sea of mass media that appealed to its audience at the time. Most of that content no longer relates or makes sense to us. There's also a massive load
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by echelon 2y ago
I have direct experience with this field. I've written, directed, and acted in independent films. I've worked on everything from three person crews all the way up to 200 person shots. Even mocap and virtual production. We're
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by echelon 2y ago
That wasn't the argument. The argument is that few will watch the majority of WB's back catalogue, because their time is being spent with all the other attention sinks. This places a monetary value on the content, not a social or
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by echelon 2y ago
With AI, this entire vast content library is about to be worthless anyway. We'll be making more long-form, quality content per month than entire Hollywood production years. And if you include short form content and slop, it'll be
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by echelon 2y ago
> are we going to pass laws based on feelings? This is very concrete fuckery. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/21/apple-doj-antitrust... https://www.npr.org/2024/03/28&#
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by echelon 2y ago
It shouldn't be allowed in the US. Lina Khan was going to put a stop to it, but tragically that didn't reach its culmination.
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by echelon 2y ago
Not everything is in the position or can afford to transitionally tax the whole of the internet itself like big tech. You're paying for Apple Invites whether you realize it or not. There's immense value in making their platform mo
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by echelon 2y ago
Luma and Partiful are really good. This Apple thing is going to turn into a "green text" social signalling thing all over again. If you have an Android, you won't be invited. More scummy Apple social engineering bullshit. Kid
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by echelon 2y ago
> "there may be a reason for me to get an iPhone now as I assumed this would be available on apple devices only." That's the objective. Green text and all. To force everyone to adopt one platform because of network effects
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by echelon 2y ago
> there are a lot of people who just decide that shows like Foundation and subscriptions like MLS Season's Pass just aren't for them. This needs anti-trust breakup. Tech companies shouldn't be media giants. They're tu
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by echelon 2y ago
Next steps: ingest these offline and process them into quick 30 second videos with the most salient facts. TTS narration, additional images. Generate stock video using the images in the API and perhaps text-to-video. That would be a killer
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by echelon 2y ago
That was a rapid resolution. Kudos to their oncall engineers.
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by echelon 2y ago
> To say that Microsoft is “irrelevant” is so myopic. Despite Tesla, GM is still relevant. Despite AWS, DB2 mainframes are still relevant. Heck, I have to work with EBCDIC data, a format designed to not produce holes in punchcards that a
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by echelon 2y ago
T2V is already I2V if you're enterprising enough to open up the model and play with the latents. The I2V modality is almost just a trick.
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by echelon 2y ago
Tencent is releasing a ton of stuff though! https://aivideo.hunyuan.tencent.com/ Github is overflowing with Tencent, Alibaba, and Ant Group models. Typically licensed as Apache 2, and replete with pretrained weights and fin
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by echelon 2y ago
I work on GenAI in the media domain, and I think this will hold true with other fields as well: - Text prompts and chat interfaces are great for coarse grained exploration. You can get a rough start that you can refine. "Knight standin
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by echelon 2y ago
“Infantry wins battles, logistics wins wars” That said, for smaller engagements when you have a forward operating base, you can air drop a massive amount of tonnage on a dime with C-5s. And if we ever turn Starship into an orbital equipment
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by echelon 2y ago
> get a commercial shipbuilding market going again domestically. How do you start a flywheel? Our industry is light years behind China and would be prohibitively more expensive. Tariffs? That's a moral equivalent of the Jones Act, j
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by echelon 2y ago
That's too much effort and the use cases are what exactly? Helping the prosecution or defense in lawsuits? People are going to get so used to AI content that it won't really matter. Culture is plastic. This will be the new norm. C
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by echelon 2y ago
Because Apple and Google are abusing their power to tax and dictate the shape of all modern digital businesses.
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by echelon 2y ago
Antitrust. Break up big tech next election cycle. The big companies are suffocating entire industries because their scale is so large that they don't even need to profit in many of their businesses. They just enter new markets, snuff o
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by echelon 2y ago
Or other permutations of the idea: https://tanktownusa.com/
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by echelon 2y ago
And who stated a reason?
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by echelon 2y ago
More restaurants, more music, more entertainment, more culture, "scenes", more romantic partners, more job opportunities, high energy, hustle, fashion, always something to do, etc. Cities are great when you're young.
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by echelon 2y ago
It seems like they've done two things here - the physical optical apparatus setup and the algorithm. I'm wondering why the physical alignment is so important. Are camera distortion models and mapping, view projection, etc. just to

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