I think the change here will be something we've seen with the other modalities. Text was interestingly syntactically correct but nonsense sentences. Then paragraphs but the end of the article would go off the rails. Then the article. Now it's that the creativity of the children's story in question.
Pictures were awful fever dreams filled with eyes but you could kind of see a dog. Then you could see what it was, then decent
Videos were fun that they kind of worked, then surprising it took a few seconds for the panda to turn into spaghetti, then it kept the general style for a decent time.
I see this moving towards the creativity being the major thing, or it having a few general styles (softly lit background for example).
This has mostly all shifted in a very short space of time and as someone who put RBMs on GPUs possibly for the first time (I'm gonna claim it) this is absolutely wild.
Had I seen some of this, say, 6 months ago I'd not have guessed at all bits weren't real.
Last night my girlfriend asked me why I kept watching the same bland sounding videos again and again. She came over and watched for a bit, gave a sort of confused laugh of solidarity to something, like "Uhh, why is he so into this? But, ok, I guess..." and then walked away.
It wasn't until I was able to get my jaw off the ground that I told her it was AI. No, not AI like special effects, completely AI.
A very important demo video I also found on reddit is this one [0] that's a fairly generic series of action scenes of a raid leading to a gun fight. The individual scenes are look mostly fine, notable exceptions being the muzzle flashes and nonsense guns in a few shots, but the connecting flow is nonsense if you look at it even a little. It has some of the consistency issues that are a bit of a halmark of AI videos, the interior size and layout of rooms and vehicles morphs and shifts from 'shot' to 'shot', they get out of the vehicle twice, etc. The wheels really come off in the more actiony scene though with the pace feeling very plodding for what would be an intense scene in even a moderately competitent human editor. Also some of the 'cops' wind up shooting each other in one scene which was a funny mistake.
Looks like AI crossed a line. At the very least, one person can do long form documentaries from their basement using VEO 3. There is no need for camera shoots. Yikes.
This reminds me of Pixar's video of an animated lamp 40 years ago. I remember that within 5 years Toy Story came out and changed everything on how animated films were made. Looks to me like we are on our way to doing the same thing with realistic movies.
Good point, how about something history related? Ken burns does something similar with photos. I've also seen animation used in documentaries. So use AI instead. How about a mock documentary? Spinal Tap comes to mind.
It’s true. YTMND nailed the TikTok / Vine format like 12 years ahead of its time. If only they’d “pivoted to mobile” and added more ease of use creation tools they may have stayed relevant.
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