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Re:Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text by antegamisou on Thursday September 29, 2022 @10:23AM (#33021054)
> A lot of people saying it's over for traditional movie-making - lmao.

The groups supporting such absurd claims largely boil down to:

    - Money-driven researchers in the applied AI field. Those are the people that spam popular ML conferences with barely novel contributions other than some minor tweaks on code from their previous papers. 

    - People unable to critically think and evaluate the significant limitations of SOTA methods occasionally marketed as AGI breakthroughs.
Last is virtually the entire HN userbase and the one that needs to be taken the least serious.

The first category is much more troubling however, since they can significantly influence research directions due to the broken citation system in academia (more citations --> higher quality contributions).

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Re:Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text by anigbrowl on Thursday September 29, 2022 @02:13PM (#33024887)
On your second point, a few years ago the SOTA was Google's Deep Dream.

I agree with your deeper criticism, though preferential attachment/ranking is very much How Humans Do Things. You could do a much improved citation system by expanding the time dimension and looking at papers that were unpopular at first and then attracted wide interest later.

Of course, academics also have a tendency to over-cite (because they don't want to be rejected for inadequate literature review), so there are incentives to cite a bunch of research whose premises or conclusions you hope to overturn.

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