Comment on OpenAI collapses media reality with Sora AI video generator | If trusting video from anonymous sources on social media was a bad idea before, it's an even worse idea now

OpenHammer6677@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• YungOnions@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean, the ability to generate whatever video you want without having to pay the costs normally associated with filming, location, actors etc is going to be very appealing to people like advertisers. This way you can have a few seconds of a beach for your travel company advert, for example, without having to pay for the stock footage or film it yourself. In fact I can see this transforming stock footage in general. Why bother to pay someone to make a generic video of ‘people having a meeting’ when an AI can do it for free in half the time. Doesn’t even need to be that good if you’re only using it briefly in a presentation. Not saying any of this is a good thing, but here we are…

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  • OpenHammer6677@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I get what you’re saying, but there isn’t really any NEED for that

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thats kind of like saying we never needed cars because we had horses.

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    • YungOnions@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, yes in so far that it opens those options up to people who may not have been able to afford it before. Whether that’s a ‘need’ or not depends on your opinion of the company I guess.

      Also there are other applications beyond this, of course. Easily made videos could help reduce the costs associated with treating some mental health issues for example.

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    • madnness@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It may help to make synthetic training data for other models / simulators

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      • OpenHammer6677@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Which then just feeds to the system. But as this is a globally impactful thing, is there any real world need that outweighs the harm?

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This way you can have a few seconds of a beach for your travel company advert, for example, without having to pay for the stock footage or film it yourself.

    Advertising holidays at places that do not exist! Exactly what we needed!

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    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So no different than currently? Pictures and videos in ads all have heavy editing and post processing to make them look better.

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      • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It‘s highly debatable how much editing is ok or when it get‘s deceiving. Video can only show you so much of an actual experience, senses like smells, warmth and time need some editing to be somewhat communicated. That‘s just film making.

        For an AI generated clip it‘s not even a debate. It doesn‘t exist and doesn‘t try to advertise anything. And since it‘s so much easier and cheaper than doing all of the above… Well let‘s just say the incentive to deceive was just pushed up to 11.

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Uhh, ads already do that.

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      • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Usually their computer animations are a pretty obvious style choice. This is completely different than that and even more different than photos.

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    • YungOnions@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      OK, poor example, but you get my point.

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• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Art. Presentations. Visualizations. Porn.

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  • ours@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Weird music videos. Just this week Youtube had pushed me music videos all done in the weird warpy AI style.

    It’s kind of cool and simultaneously already feels like a fad that tired with.

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• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who said anything about need?

  It was created because someone thought of it. How it’s used is a measure of the person using it.

  People will find ways to utilize whatever someone creates. And usually in ways the creator never envisioned.

  “Needing” something comes after a tool becomes ubiquitous. Imagine trying to screw in a Phillips screw with a slot screw driver - you’d need a Phillips driver because those screws are now ubiquitous (and I can’t wait for them to go away. All hail our stripped screw saviour Torx!)

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• mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Genuine question: When have we ever needed the things corporations push as disruptive technologies?

  This isn’t being done because we asked for it, it’s being done by the owner class as a method of control and cover.

  It isn’t ‘we’, and never has been.

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