Incredible, simply incredible. You know a paper is seminal when all the methods seem obvious in hindsight! Though I’m not caught up on SOTA, so maybe some of this is obvious in normal-sight, too.
RIP Pika and ElevenLabs… tho I guess they always can offer convenience and top tier UX. Still, gotta imagine they’re panicking this morning!
Upload an image of yourself and transform it into a personalized video. Movie Gen’s cutting-edge model lets you create personalized videos that preserve human identity and motion.
Given how effective the still images of Trump saving people in floodwater and fixing electrical poles have been despite being identifiable as AI if you look closely (or think…), this is going to be nuts. 16 seconds is more than enough to convince people, I’m guessing the average video watch time is much less than that on social media.
Also, YouTube shorts (and whatever Meta’s version is) is about to get even worse, yet also probably more addicting! It would be hard to explain to an alien why we got so unreasonably good at optimal content to keep people scrolling. Imagine an automated YouTube channel running 24/7 A/B experiments for some set of audiences…
RIP Pika and ElevenLabs… tho I guess they always can offer convenience and top tier UX. Still, gotta imagine they’re panicking this morning!
Given how effective the still images of Trump saving people in floodwater and fixing electrical poles have been despite being identifiable as AI if you look closely (or think…), this is going to be nuts. 16 seconds is more than enough to convince people, I’m guessing the average video watch time is much less than that on social media.Also, YouTube shorts (and whatever Meta’s version is) is about to get even worse, yet also probably more addicting! It would be hard to explain to an alien why we got so unreasonably good at optimal content to keep people scrolling. Imagine an automated YouTube channel running 24/7 A/B experiments for some set of audiences…