Gen-3 Alpha produces wild and whimsical results. Here's what it cooked up for us.
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We made a cat drink a beer with Runway’s AI video generator, and it sprouted hands
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This is what I've found with the still image generators like Dall-E. If you want a variation on an image that it will likely have been trained with, it'll deliver. If you want a representation of some wholly novel idea, it'll fail dismally no matter how hard you prompt it.
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If it didn't happen to books, why would you assume it would happen to any other media?
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The Victorian woman running through a forest immediately reminded me of Emily Blunt in The Wolfman:
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And neither the hacker nor the "highly intelligent person" are looking at their screens! heh
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The cat picture at the top is an instant classic. If it doesn't go viral this very second, I'll be very disappointed.
So that's at least one thing this video generator is good for, right there: manufacturing goofy memes.
So that's at least one thing this video generator is good for, right there: manufacturing goofy memes.
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I imagine that playing basketball with ghosts would be hard if they can phase and teleport the ball.
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It wasn't until the second to the last paragraph that I realized I had been parsing "Runway" as "Runaway".
Somehow, I think that's coincidentally appropriate.
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Did you even watch all of the example videos in this article? We're not even remotely close to having "AI" produce content on demand, let alone content that makes any sense whatsoever. As for "AI" generated porn, if there are people who get off on that, all the more power to them, but I suspect porn actors won't be out of work anytime soon.
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Is it me or is that Victorian woman’s head not attached in a normal way to her neck as she spins around? Also I had an early apple ][ and I certainly don’t recall a curved 30+” lcd screen and an external keyboard
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The more ridiculous the prompt, the better results. Because the result would be ridiculous anyway, but with the ridiculous prompt at least the result is what it was asked for.
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I actually liked the Burger video. The Sasquatch was my next fav, but it really gave off vibes of a guy in a raccoon suit pretending to be a Sasquatch.
And the cat drinking beer reminded me of the Love, Death and Robots episode of the cats with opposable thumbs being the downfall of humanity.
And the cat drinking beer reminded me of the Love, Death and Robots episode of the cats with opposable thumbs being the downfall of humanity.
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None of the videos that showed characters moving around a lot (except maybe moon shark) showed any consistency of physical bodies. That victorian lady had a neck that could swivel 360, the barbarian pulled things out of mid air. Shark boy morphed as he moved. And that's not even getting to the cat drinking beer.
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Nah Hollywood is going to start making films in the Skibidi Toilet CU so they'll be arright.
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A little levity goes a long way.
I think some of the folks hanging out in the comments could take a chill pill or two. The sky is not falling, not every video this thing generated is an abomination, and no it's not going to replace all our jobs anytime soon.
I think some of the folks hanging out in the comments could take a chill pill or two. The sky is not falling, not every video this thing generated is an abomination, and no it's not going to replace all our jobs anytime soon.
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Can we, as a species, just acknowledge that Will Smith eating spaghetti is a fucking cognitohazard? Could we please criminalize possession of it?
I feel like you could increase the population of serial killers by 20,000% if you just had Will Smith eating spaghetti playing on a jumbotron at a Chief’s game. Maybe it wouldn’t work on the adults, but any kids seeing it, something inside them would break, and from that moment on they’d be doomed to know true peace and relief only when elbow deep in another person’s intestines.
I feel like you could increase the population of serial killers by 20,000% if you just had Will Smith eating spaghetti playing on a jumbotron at a Chief’s game. Maybe it wouldn’t work on the adults, but any kids seeing it, something inside them would break, and from that moment on they’d be doomed to know true peace and relief only when elbow deep in another person’s intestines.
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All AI people and their pets have six fingers. It's like how androids have an access port, tattoo mark or bar code, and robot names start with R (e.g. R. Daneel Olivaw). It's the Fourth Law of AIbotics.
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The Queen of the Universe didn't move much, except for her mammohand.
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Polydactylism is an indicator of divinity. That’s just AI letting us know it’s better than us.
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Personally, my favorite is the first one, where the AI video has Ars Technica spelled wrong (Ars Techinica). How did that happen? Human error in the prompt? Or did AI decide there was a copyright issue? Or just that 'Techinica" was a better spelling and the site should change its name?
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Meh... I'm getting much more of a Kanye vibe (especially the first couple of seconds).
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These were all pretty entertaining. Entertaining, but garbage. What's the business plan for incoherent 10 second videos? I'd love to play with it but I don't think I'd have the stomach to pay whatever the compute costs are just to play with a toy.
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They won't fix the hands issue for a LONG time
There's too much crossover between the weights that unless they manually set the weight of hands to animals to 0 for all input data, and then also generate and input animorphized paws holding things, it won't ever get it right.
There's always going to be some fringe input data that it's referencing to make the "hands" pop up where it's not suppose to, and/or look weird.
There's too much crossover between the weights that unless they manually set the weight of hands to animals to 0 for all input data, and then also generate and input animorphized paws holding things, it won't ever get it right.
There's always going to be some fringe input data that it's referencing to make the "hands" pop up where it's not suppose to, and/or look weird.
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Working backwards from the cat video, I would have guessed the prompt was "a malfunctioning T-1000 pretending to be a cat with human hands, trying to drink a beer but instead failing and partially absorbing the can into its head."
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Banning it would only increase its power. I suggest self-amnestication. The requisite supplies are available at your local liquor store.
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