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AI Video Gen just leapt forwards
Ay yo just look at this shit. Shame it's an OAI product and thus utterly neutered by the time it makes it to us plebs.
Yep, that's DoA, DALL-E's built-in filter is infamously hair-trigger even for non-risque things, besides the model itself having a semi-poisoned dataset for certain things like anime artstyles. I predict Sora's capacity to generate people being even worse than that of current models, there's a reason they mostly showcase heckin cute puppers and shit.
On a related note, it's getting very tiresome how my excitement for new advances in AI tech ("holy shit this is insanely cool wtffffff") is near-immediately soured by the reality of its applications ("I can scarcely begin to fathom how cucked the pleb-facing version will be"). This is more or less a me problem but I can't be alone in thinking this, it's not even so much that I personally feel cucked by not being able to gen e.g cute girls doing cute things, it's more like here is this insanely creative technology, it's pretty cool right, let us proceed to do absolutely fucking nothing with it because letting plebs have fun is too problematic in the current year, your superiors know what's better for you, no fun allowed, get back to your wage cage you fucking rube. We live in a society, etc.
I know I sound like a curmudgeon and say nothing constructive, technically they can do whatever they want with what they themselves developed, but I am
drunk, sorryincredibly tired of this safetyism mindset, even after getting thoroughly desensitized to non-kosher uses of generative AI after a year in the company of /g/entlemen (whose existence technically proves it's not as bad as I paint it, but still).On a lighter note, experts say.
I'm not thinking as much about inevitable filters as I'm thinking of how there's gonna be maybe 2-3 months of fun you get out of it and then social media just gets flooded with samey-samey videos with the "smell of AI" on them, like with images.
On that note, I'm honestly impressed and partly relieved by how quickly people develop a "sense" for AI-generated things - image, text, and soon likely video. It also reinforces my belief that whatever the eventual AGI/ASI may be, it will not be a master persuader with infinite charisma like some people seem to believe, we'll already be reasonably hardened by years of psyops before it comes into play.
What worries me is the possibility that people will sour on 'pretty' AI-generated art/text/video the way they soured on realism in the 20th century. The 'real art is shocking' brigade are too powerful already.
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