Oh, so this is why all of a sudden, they have video proof Epstein did kill himself…
Yeah … we’re screwed
When marketers and promoters developed media campaigns, marketing gimmicks, subtle sales and print marketing just over 100 years ago … it make some wealthy people even more wealthy. It also dawned a new age of Propaganda which morphed into what they call ‘Public Relations’ and modern day communications. All of it meant that governments, corporations, businesses and political entities and owners could use the media and every media format to subtly guide and manage the global population to buy certain things, think certain ways, believe certain things and basically control the population as best they could to get everyone to side with the things they wanted them to believe. It was always difficult because its not that easy to market to someone for decades before they eventually figure out what is happening … for most people anyway … as some are more likely to figure it out than others.
Now that we will be able to generate realistic looking images, voices and sounds of anyone and even create entirely new characters out of thin air … everyone’s grasp of reality is about to become unhinged.
Our owners took the wheels of communications 100 years ago to use it all to their advantage to shape the world around them and get everyone to buy certain things, believe certain things and bring down any kind of opposition thought or processes that would impact their wealth in any way.
We’re at those crossroads again. And judging by our human track record so far … it won’t be for the betterment of all humanity … it will be for the betterment and control of a small subset of humanity, at the cost of everyone else.
arguably the sophists in 500 BCE were the first marketers / pr managers.
I don’t really get the concern. Anyone who cares about understanding reality isn’t looking to social media for it, and the people who don’t care about reality don’t need AI to believe whatever nonsense is convenient for them.
Are we doomed? Yes, but AI isn’t changing that.
An entire article about realistic video and not one mention of porn?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7Fs&ab_channel=BroadwayClassics
I don’t understand why after generating 8 seconds, it can’t just use that as the base to generate more, and so on for unlimited length. Once they figure that out, I think society will deteriorate even faster.
Outside of computing costs, there is no limit to the length of video generated, but keeping the output coherent and contextual for more than a few seconds is a completely different puzzle to solve.
Same reason ChatGPT 3.0 could make realistic Reddit comments half a decade ago but the latest models still can’t generate more than a paragraph or two before losing the thread.
there’s been talk of “ai collapse” over the past few months, where models get trained on their own output and gradually get worse. video models basically need to work on data that’s collapsing in real-time as each frame builds on the previous. if you try to generate more it just turns into mush because there are already thousands of imperceptible but compounding errors in the data that exponentially get worse. the trick with making longer clips is staving off those compounding errors by stabilising the data for as long as possible.
Yes.
