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Re:Dreamix: Video Diffusion Models Are General Video Editors by hankman86 on Saturday February 04, 2023 @11:30PM (#34661875)
AI feels very different from previous waves of disruptive technologies (e.g., Web 2.0, mobile, cloud, social). More than ever, negative consequences are in plain sight. AI proponents do not even deny that this is going to eliminate a lot of jobs. And it is going to produce an endless barrage of generic, soulless, manipulative content. Wouldn’t surprise me to see people retreating from online platforms as a result of that.

Where is the positive vision in all of this?

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Re:Dreamix: Video Diffusion Models Are General Video Editors by sastraxi on Sunday February 05, 2023 @02:36AM (#34662790)
Perhaps this is the answer to the question “how do we combat the epidemic of loneliness?” —- once the internet truly cannot be trusted, we’ll be forced to once again connect offline (where, at least for now, deepfakes are not possible).
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Re:Dreamix: Video Diffusion Models Are General Video Editors by fortyseven on Sunday February 05, 2023 @07:42AM (#34664467)
It's a genie in a bottle situation. Short of an apocalypse that bombs mankind back to the stone age, we can't "unlearn" these new skills. Sure, you can try to legislate them away, but you'd be fooling yourself at that point. There was "then" and there's now: we have to learn how to adapt and hopefully end up with a net gain positive change by the end.
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