Google Veo 3 (AI video generation) is insane

Whilst impressive. I dont think its that difficult to filter out AI content just yet. Its getting more difficult but there is still that "uncanny valley" effect in the majority of AI content that gives it its tell-tale shows. Its getting close though, scarily close.

I've just watched a few hours of videos of a Scottish artists music videos and I find it difficult to think how AI could quite match the same soul and feeling of the music and videos without it tell-tales being obvious. Whilst impressive I feel we are still a long ways off.
 
Chuk_Chuk said:
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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Yeah this for me is the worst part, I already quit Facebook (which I hardly used) because it was just presenting me with AI images of fake nonsense all the time, it just wound me up and was the final straw in driving me off the platform altogether.

I'm a musician (or was for a long time, sort of still am) and I can see it just ending creative music, or almost all creativity and expression and replacing bands and musicians altogether, which is quite sad really.

In some cases AI music is still quite obvious but not always, Rick Beato did a good take on it:

 
AI music will significantly change music and the industry but I don't think it will completely replace bands and musicians - there is a lot of nuance it will likely never replace and if you want something specifically crafted beyond a certain point it will struggle.
 
I tried giving Gemini/VEO 2 a whirl as 3 isn't available in this country yet - they need to do a lot of work on that anyhow - despite a paid premium account it screwed up on the 3rd video, then my first 2 disappeared without trace and on the 4th it told me I had only 2 videos left I could create today but the 4th was blank, then on trying a 5th time it told me I would have to wait until 3am on the 27th of May until I could try again...
 
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I tried giving Gemini/VEO 2 a whirl as 3 isn't available in this country yet - they need to do a lot of work on that anyhow - despite a paid premium account if screwed up on the 3rd video, then my first 2 disappeared without trace and on the 4th it told me I had only 2 videos left I could create today but the 4th was blank, then on trying a 5th time it told me I would have to wait until 3am on the 27th of May until I could try again...
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That sounds as buggy as hell.
 
Rroff said:
I tried giving Gemini/VEO 2 a whirl as 3 isn't available in this country yet - they need to do a lot of work on that anyhow - despite a paid premium account it screwed up on the 3rd video, then my first 2 disappeared without trace and on the 4th it told me I had only 2 videos left I could create today but the 4th was blank, then on trying a 5th time it told me I would have to wait until 3am on the 27th of May until I could try again...
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I also tried veo 2 then instantly went about upgrading even though geoblocked :) found a way to get in $125 a month for the privilege however for 3 months before going back to $250
 
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Felon said:
I'm a musician (or was for a long time, sort of still am) and I can see it just ending creative music, or almost all creativity and expression and replacing bands and musicians altogether, which is quite sad really.
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maybe it represents a good reset where the high percentage of social media initiated publishing(low cost) of mediocre/derivative material enhanced by para-social relationships gets obliterated.

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I need to make a more determined effort to suppress the stupid AI suggestions from google search trying to second guess
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jon86 said:
What are you scared about? AI feeding bad information or something else?
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AI feeding mis information across the world.

The fact that it will replace a massive amount of jobs I have come to terms with, more the disruption it will cause across multiple things
 
Based on my experience of dealing with the NHS recently together with private healthcare, I'm looking forward to AI in the medical sector. Hopefully many jobs will be replaced and large amounts of time and money will be saved.
 
Drollic said:
Based on my experience of dealing with the NHS recently together with private healthcare, I'm looking forward to AI in the medical sector. Hopefully many jobs will be replaced and large amounts of time and money will be saved.
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very good point, this use case will be extremely valuable!

Less errors, quicker turnaround
 
Drollic said:
Based on my experience of dealing with the NHS recently together with private healthcare, I'm looking forward to AI in the medical sector. Hopefully many jobs will be replaced and large amounts of time and money will be saved.
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Sadly reliance on AI itself causes a lot of issues when things go wrong as well... but I was dealing with DPD and human support was a shambles of no one wanting to take responsibility, having a resolution path or interested in trying to understand what the problem was, etc. and out of frustration I tried the AI support and it straight away got back with something like "If I'm understanding this right your problem is X" with a yes/no prompt and it nailed it first time and was able to resolve the problem... *facepalm* (which kind of surprised me as it was an edge case issue, though not difficult to understand if someone actually read the details with any interest in comprehending it rather than as the support people were doing of just reacting to keywords in isolation, which I didn't expect the AI to have been trained on).
 
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The future is going to get here a lot quicker than we ever imagined possible.

 
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Felon said:
I'm a musician (or was for a long time, sort of still am) and I can see it just ending creative music, or almost all creativity and expression and replacing bands and musicians altogether, which is quite sad really.
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surely without new music for AI to learn from we get stuck in a generic loop though.

AI only knows what sounds good to us from what people have made, then makes similar music? AKA Generic follow the formula.
 
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Drollic said:
Based on my experience of dealing with the NHS recently together with private healthcare, I'm looking forward to AI in the medical sector. Hopefully many jobs will be replaced and large amounts of time and money will be saved.
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Don't get your hopes up, the NHS is decades behind the curve.

We still write on paper and then pay a company to manually scan the paper onto patients digital records. We also have pools of typists to type up dictated letters.
 
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Which is exactly where we are with most modern music - a generic loop of gormless trash.
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most media went the same way, its how capitalism works unfortunately.

You get up the ladder quick, then you place boobie traps you lobbied for over the years called legislation, you make it so expensive no competition can ever emerge.
then you start maximising share holder value at the expensive of everything else.

whilst doing this don't forget to buy out all your competition and crush them.


Shame it takes a few decades to witness how capitalism really works, it's nothing to do with the best product winning out like they claim.
 
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