Google Veo 3 (AI video generation) is insane

They are getting good but still limited to short scenes with one focus object - longer scenes and trying to get a few different things happening as desired is still very hit and miss on AI video models.
 
This makes me feel bad.

I don't think this is a positive for humankind. It won't be long before AI video is undistinguishable from real video. At that point YouTube is dead. Movies are dead. Music is dead. Podcast's are dead. You can never trust any video or audio ever again. Millions of people out of work. It will get to the stage where AI has created the bulk of the internet and AI is using AI generated data to train itself.

I am no expert on AI so the above might not be accurate but those are my immediate thoughts. It just seems like this is going to be a huge net negative for humanity.
 
I think we all widely agree that social media has been mostly negative for humanity. I wonder if AI will be the force that drives us away from social media?

Social media sites are being infested by AI all with the goal of trying to get you engage with them.Endless AI slop, with endless AI bait comments and endless AI bots arguing with each other.
I can't imagine that people would want to engage with that.
 
Chuk_Chuk said:
I think we all widely agree that social media has been mostly negative for humanity. I wonder if AI will be the force that drives us away from social media?

Social media sites are being infested by AI all with the goal of trying to get you engage with them.Endless AI slop, with endless AI bait comments and endless AI bots arguing with each other.
I can't imagine that people would want to engage with that.
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It will be for me. It's getting difficult now in the nature photography groups I'm in. You can still tell. But it takes a few moments longer to discern now. Often it's that unrealistic smooth finish that gives it away. Some text is jumbled.

I wonder what it will do for Instagram if you can just put you on a pic of a holiday snap.

I'm never really going to be interested in AI content. Same way as I've lost interest in computer games vs real life experiences.


But I expect it will be a success broadly.. Maybe? I dunno. I'm very much not the same generation as 20yos so I can't really say if my views are common.
 
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You can sort of do the same with other routes as well, just there's more steps in getting everything together to make the same thing with both video and sound. Especially at higher resolutions.

The length of each generated video isn't an issue either, as once you have a two stage flow using two images (one start frame to generate from and one end frame to generate towards) you can basically make a whole video like that.
 
lovelyhead said:
This makes me feel bad.

I don't think this is a positive for humankind. It won't be long before AI video is undistinguishable from real video. At that point YouTube is dead. Movies are dead. Music is dead. Podcast's are dead. You can never trust any video or audio ever again. Millions of people out of work. It will get to the stage where AI has created the bulk of the internet and AI is using AI generated data to train itself.

I am no expert on AI so the above might not be accurate but those are my immediate thoughts. It just seems like this is going to be a huge net negative for humanity.
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I’m already using massive block lists for AI slop music on YouTube.

It’s garbage.
 
montymint said:
I’m already using massive block lists for AI slop music on YouTube.

It’s garbage.
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Quality of AI music is improving significantly - though still a long way from studio production quality. A lot of heavy leaning on human produced music still though - you can often hear recognisable elements from popular music, etc. even in AI models which claim they aren't trained on copyright music, etc.

EDIT: Depends a lot on genre and elements as well for some reason - anything involving country music or violins and certain types of vocals it can push out some stuff you'd struggle to tell was generated, other genres like trance it seems to see things like smush from sample compression, etc. as a feature rather than something undesirable :s
 
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lovelyhead said:
This makes me feel bad.

I don't think this is a positive for humankind. It won't be long before AI video is undistinguishable from real video. At that point YouTube is dead. Movies are dead. Music is dead. Podcast's are dead. You can never trust any video or audio ever again. Millions of people out of work. It will get to the stage where AI has created the bulk of the internet and AI is using AI generated data to train itself.

I am no expert on AI so the above might not be accurate but those are my immediate thoughts. It just seems like this is going to be a huge net negative for humanity.
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I agree 100%. Already I question lots of still images I see, now it won't be soon before every video will have the same question mark over it's validity.

It will be so easy for political parties to attempt to manipulate the public as well, using AI.

Already we get 1000's of out of context clips and videos not showing what really happened. How long before we're seeing outrage videos of completely AI made up events pushing people to vote one way or another?
 
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I agree 100%. Already I question lots of still images I see, now it won't be soon before every video will have the same question mark over it's validity.

It will be so easy for political parties to attempt to manipulate the public as well, using AI.

Already we get 1000's of out of context clips and videos not showing what really happened. How long before we're seeing outrage videos of completely AI made up events pushing people to vote one way or another?
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I am really struggling to see any benefits this type of AI delivers to the common man. The only people I see who stand to benefit are the owners of the tech. I have never felt this way before about a new technology, often I have been unimpressed with something or think it is a scam like crypto or even considered something a net negative like social media, but I have never thought it is an actual threat to humanity. This AI video tech has the potential to start wars, cause economic depressions like we have never seen before and destroy free and fair democracy and for what? Depressing and I think the vast majority of people are completely unaware of the danger.
 
Here is a scenario: A company makes an AI video of a rival companies CEO kicking a homeless man in the street. How can they prove it is fake? Stock price crashes, people lose their jobs.

Another scenario: The CEO of a company actually does kick a homeless man in the street. Claims it was just a rival who created an AI video to discredit them. License to do whatever you like as you can blame it on AI.

Car insurance industry could face real problems. You provide the dashcam footage of the crash that wrote off your car which wasn't your fault. Car insurance company can't accept any video now because it can be easily faked. Denies your claim.

Negative scenario's are almost endless.

This is a disaster for humanity.
 
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Chuk_Chuk said:
I think we all widely agree that social media has been mostly negative for humanity. I wonder if AI will be the force that drives us away from social media?

Social media sites are being infested by AI all with the goal of trying to get you engage with them.Endless AI slop, with endless AI bait comments and endless AI bots arguing with each other.
I can't imagine that people would want to engage with that.
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A valid point. Ai will make the internet so fake that people will be drawn away from tech and back into the real world.

I bet Joe Rogan will be uber annoyed as you can basically make an Ai podcast for whatever you want.

"Hey Google can you make me an Ai podcast where a Geordie and a West Country man discuss the collapse of English society and make it 3 hours, 12 minutes and 30 seconds long because that is how long my journey is."

If you could make audio books that educate you that would be a total game changer with Ai. Like learning languages while you drive or learning new skills or the theory behind it at least.
 
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MatsyLR said:
Its madness
What's going to happen when it's impossible to tell (it's almost there)
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Crazy it was just what 3 or 4 years ago the first images were being produced, and now we're at short length video with vocals and sound.

Another 3 to 4 years or so and I guess we will have ironed out most flaws.

People were already getting duped by mediocre ai content, we're already there as I'd struggle to tell if it was ai, if you made it look real enough and dialogue flowed more naturally.
 
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