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I have been subscribing to ChatGPT Plus for a long time. I just cancelled my subscription today because every time I try to login to sora.com, I get the too busy message. I have never been able to try it. Pissed me off.
Tencent has a comparable open weight model dropped in the last week that looks at least as good.
So when's the lawsuit from Google coming?
I was searching recently for a photograph of Arthur Rimbaud in his later years, and noticed that already Google Images was flooded with AI-generated stuff from websites that do not require marking it as such. Authentic material will soon be much harder to find for people who don't know the sources.
That's now how the world is supposed to work, I wonder if there is going to be long-term psychological effects if being exposed to videos like these regularly. If our neurons are unable to receive a stable stream of reality like we have for millions of years will our brains become dysfunctional over time?
Something about that image of the spinning coffee cup with sailing ships is giving me severe trypophobia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia
It’s a like a spider’s eyes… and also not what I would expect a latte to look like.
Is it better or just more distracting away from it's flaws and using flaws to advantage? I only see repulsive mouth movements to induce fear, face coverings to hide the uncanniness, dreamy physics sim to distract. Not so out of place in present day hollywood but never any coherence of feeling.
So in the end, was it all classic hype pumping and heavily edited marketing material? Can't create account but from what I see on the front-page, every video looks kinda strange, almost in everyone of them something is instantly off to my eye. Anyone got decent results yet?
Why keep building AI to do the things that people find fun to do rather than the mundane bullshit? All we’ll be left with is cleaning, folding laundry, and doing the dishes while AI does all the interesting things.
Is there information when it will be available in other countries, like Germany for example?
Meh. It's a cool POC and immediately useful for abstract imagery, but not for anything realistic.
Looking forward to the onslaught of AI-generated slop filling every video feed on the Internet. Maybe it's finally what's going to kill things like TikTok, YT Shorts, Reels, etc. One can hope...anyway.
I may be the only one but this kinda breaks my brain in that I notice weird physics anomalies in these but then I start to look for those in non-AI produced video and start to question everything. Hopefully this a short term situation.
No integration with ChatGPT is a lost opportunity and illustrates no joined up thinking in all senses of that phrase. Demonstrations, helping people with learning difficulties visualise things, education purposes, story telling...
Serious question: is this better than current text-to-video models like Hailuo?
In July I made this 3 minute little content marketing video for Canada Day. Took me about 40 minutes using a combo of midjourney + pika, suno for the music. Honestly I had a lot of fun making it, I can see these tools with be fun for creative teams to hammer out little things for social media and stuff: https://x.com/ascent_hi/status/1807871799302279372
I don't see sora being THAT much better than pika now that I'm trying both, except that it's included in my openai subscription, but I do think people who do discreet parts of the "modal stack" are going to be able to compete on their merits (be it pika for vid or suno for music etc)
A minimum setting video took an hour 480p 5s 1:1. Servers getting cooked
"Here" depends on where you live. Not available in the UK.
A friendly reminder: if you have tech-illiterate people in your life (parents, grandparents, friends, etc), please reach out to them and inform them about advances in AI text, image, audio, and (as of very recently) video generation. Many folks are not aware of what modern algorithms are capable of, and this puts them at risk. GenAI makes it easier and cheaper than ever for bad actors to create targeted, believable scams. Let your loved ones know that it is possible to create believable images, audio, and videos which may depict anything from “Politician Says OUTRAGEOUS Thing!” to “a member of your own family is begging you for money.” The best defense you can give them is to make them aware of what they’re up against. These tools are currently the worst they will ever be, and their capabilities will only grow in the coming months and years. They are already widely used by scammers.
Anyone else feeling their servers melt a bit on sora.com?
Is there no way to try it even without subscribing? After you log in, it goes straight to a screen asking for subscription to create videos.
Great. In a world awash with disinformation, we're making it easier to create even more of it.
I don't see any good coming from tools like these.
The competition in text-to-video tools is heating up, but a key challenge remains: achieving desired results without exhausting resources. Runway, for instance, often consumes all your credits before producing something usable, even if you stick to their guidelines. Hailuo AI shows better consistency, while Sora Turbo sounds promising with potentially more mature generations. Progress is clear, but there’s still a way to go in perfecting these tools.
I wonder when in the future ai images and videos will be remotely useful and easy to create. These are still weird and garbage quality.
Sora makes movies less interesting, regardless of how they're created.
The part made by Sora? About as interesting as the latest chess programs doing well at chess. woohoo/nice job.
The overall effect? Now we spend mental energy trying to figure out which parts are machine generated, and hence not worth anything. That mental energy is gone, sucked out of the cultural economy, and fed to the machinery of mediocrity.
sorry for the tangent: can't remember a launch they've had where you could just use it. it's always "rollout", "later this quarter", "select users", what's the deal here?
it's given openai this tinge to me that i probably won't ever manage to forget.
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Was this the one trained on YouTube?
What is a "System Card"?
regarding all the comments about physics, I wonder if a hybrid approach would work better, with an llm generating 3d objects that interact in a physics simulation with guiding forces from the LLM and then another model generating photo realistic rendering.
sharing a paper of Sora: https://www.openread.academy/en/paper/reading?corpusId=50343...
The most impressive part is the temporal consistency in the demo videos.
He flower one is the best looking.
It's worth remembering, in the end, humans still created it. Just remarkable.
I am not impressed by it at all ... Is it actually better than the competitors?
At least we don't have to worry about AI taking over any time soon
So they released it in Afghanistan but not in Sweden? Is this an EU ban?
Sort of messed up that I’m paying for ChatGPT pro and still can’t access it.
"...I felt a great disturbance in the algorithm... as if millions of influencers, OnlyFans stars, and video creators suddenly cried out in terror..."
I wish that after Sora and Sora Turbo they would release Sora Lella
So we are now a few years into the AI video thing.
I'm curious to know - is it actually useful for real world tasks that people/companies need videos for?
I like that the contributors are presented as movie credits
I think this would be fitting use case for niche stock video.
God. These AI tools are really showing just how f’d up people are. AI is a scapegoat for the absurdity of society. We are a a scourge! Well, aren’t we? Look at what we’re doing and the way we use this to instinctively conduct psychological warfare on each other! People are facetious. People will kill each other, and people want to lie, steal, and cheat. God almighty. How depressing…
This is a problem that highlights the apparent either lack of effect, or lack of care for, consequences, period. The current consequences in place to deter this abysmal and abhorrent behavior simply aren’t enough. I look around and the world is going nuts, and failing, it seems, to attribute the cause with the effect. Shitty people doing shitty things. We don’t need new laws or regulations, when people aren’t willing or able to abide by the ones currently in place! What good will that do?
what in particular is better as about this than
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mmmmh...
ok, so gpt pro with some extra power and sora. This means that gtp5 and generally speaking AGI can wait
even in this mammoths demo, the dust clouds keep popping behind them even after they have moved forward
I'm surprised they put in 2 legged poodles