[HN Gopher] CogVideo: Large-Scale Pretraining for Text-to-Video ...
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CogVideo: Large-Scale Pretraining for Text-to-Video Generation via
Transformers
Author : aero-glide2
Score : 80 points
Date : 2022-05-30 18:10 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| jonas21 wrote:
| The lion drinking water is hilarious.
| taylorius wrote:
| Dark green t-shirt guy (rightmost column, second from the bottom)
| looks like he has entirely lost his mind.
| m00dy wrote:
| cool, but where is the code ?
| lifeplusplus wrote:
| i like how every frame it's a different person
| p1esk wrote:
| Where's the paper?
| agnosticmantis wrote:
| The first short term application for this may be in online
| advertising. Cheap, short and low resolution clips that are only
| meant to grab attention and can be as exotic as you want, related
| to a product you want to sell. The advertiser cherry-picks from a
| pool of generated clips related to their query, so the hit and
| miss nature of these models won't be a big problem.
| Teever wrote:
| Pornography. The first application will be pornography.
|
| The first mover who can surreptitiously replace cam girls doing
| stuff like drinking milk out of dog bowls while wearing dog
| costumes is going to make so much money from unsuspecting rubes
| who think they're actually paying strangers to degrade
| themselves.
|
| "A fool and his money are soon parted"
| jimmygrapes wrote:
| Unless compute costs drop to near free, it will always be
| cheaper to pay some desperate and/or "liberated" woman a few
| USD to do such things.
| Teever wrote:
| That was the old porn paradigm.
|
| I think you're unaware of just how much some people make on
| onlyfans. It's far more than a few dollars.
|
| not to mention something like this will allow you to
| generate body types that are very rare, if not outright
| impossible, and you can animate them doing things that are
| also very rare, or outright impossible.
| natly wrote:
| Then they'll be A/B tested and possibly even without human
| moderation since you can filter bad content by just checking
| with CLIP what it contains.
| aero-glide2 wrote:
| If the video doesn't load, try this
| https://twitter.com/ak92501/status/1531017163284393987
| aaaaaaaaaaab wrote:
| It's 2022 and AIs are generating videos, yet we're still unable
| to properly embed a video into a HTML page.
| [deleted]
| kingcharles wrote:
| The two girls kissing looks innocent, but it shows the potential
| for AI to create believable virtual porn. They don't give the
| prompt for that video for some reason...
| astrange wrote:
| You won't get that from Chinese research, it's illegal.
|
| Also notice their "anime" prompt doesn't look like anime, it
| looks like animated copyright free clip art.
| echelon wrote:
| > but
|
| Everyone is freaking out about this. Wouldn't it just be better
| if we just accepted it and got on with our lives?
|
| When anyone can generate any video of any subject doing
| anything at all, we just need to come to grips with that fact.
| It's the new normal, and there's no going back.
| noduerme wrote:
| It's gonna be rough for the gig workforce at onlyfans
| deadbunny wrote:
| Services like that are about the "personal" (parasocial)
| connection.
| ALittleLight wrote:
| I think we are pretty close to advances in language
| models, text to speech, and image generation automating
| the parasocial relationship. When your AI gf looks how
| you want, (virtually) does whatever you want, and talks
| to you however and whenever you want - I don't see how
| OnlyFans and the like will compete.
| astrange wrote:
| Comparative advantage and the power of boredom help here.
| "Hiring" people means you get things you don't want or
| didn't ask for, and that's a good thing.
| llaolleh wrote:
| Is the time ripe for a porn startup?
| natly wrote:
| It literally is
| [deleted]
| touringa wrote:
| https://youtu.be/whd4JCUZKJA?list=PLqJbCeNOfEK-o63ACEKEbwE6-...
| natly wrote:
| These things really are out of the bag at this point. Google and
| OpenAI won't release their checkpoint but it's really just a
| matter of time (not long, just months probably) before some
| random group of people with enough patience and data (you really
| don't need insane compute if you just have patience on the scale
| of a few months) releases fully working text to video models
| ready to use.
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| Exciting times.
| greatpostman wrote:
| Yup it's not far, and the algorithms aren't a secret. Five
| years down the road, adoption will explode.
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