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Re:Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffu... by armchairhacker on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @04:18PM (#33100796)
The last-mile problem applies here too. GPT-3 text is convincing at a distance but when you look closely there is no coherence, no real understanding of plot or emotional dynamics or really anything. TV shows and movies are filled with plot holes and bad writing but it's not that bad.

Also I think "a good algorithm" is more than just repetitive content. The plots are reused and generic, but there's real skill involved into figuring out the next series to reuse with a generic plot which is still guaranteed not to flop because nobody actually wants to see reruns of that series or they accidentally screwed up a major plot point.

Re:Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffu... by gpderetta on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:24AM (#33105883)
Editors might still have a job :).

Kidding aside, these technologies are amazing, but for a while still they will need a human in the loop selecting, tweaking and editing the output and feeding it back to the contraption for the next iteration.

The question is, for how long?

Re:Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffu... by seydor on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @07:15PM (#33102412)
yes someone will need to hand-pick the best versions of each episode . over time a large enough dataset will have been generated that a model can be trained to the task of curation