Whoever is taking shorts from actual popular creators and putting some kind of other content beside it and making a new short is raking in the $ if my feed has been any indicator lately.
Ooh, I'm gonna take someone's 'hot take' reel, superimpose my useless mug over top, and communicate EXCLUSIVELY with agreeable nods and eyebrow raises thereby adding nothing while driving views to my own content instead..
Seriously, that's what it is now. Take someone else's stuff, superimpose yourself silently reacting to it, post. That and spiraling into misery.
Ooh, I'm gonna take someone's 'hot take' reel, superimpose my useless mug over top, and communicate EXCLUSIVELY with agreeable nods and eyebrow raises thereby adding nothing while driving views to my own content instead..
Seriously, that's what it is now. Take someone else's stuff, superimpose yourself silently reacting to it, post. That and spiraling into misery.
I mean even that is at least SOMETHING, a reaction has some content no matter how minimal.
I mean ones like this where it's something totally different on one side.. some video of video games, or machining, or food prep.. terrible.
__________________ Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Knowing that you're one of the people responsible for filling what little social media I do use with AI-generated slop kinda makes me want to hoof you in the groin.
I've seen his slop... it's significantly better than the other slop. And (without giving his idea away), it's clever.
Fuzz will get a kick from this one especially considering its pretty nefarious misinformation use.
Now this was done with Veo 3 before image to video was possible with it, and before you could get good character consistency (plain text to video would get a good likeness but that's it), and honestly the article is already old news.
Earlier this week Google Veo 3 just added the ability to do image to video with sound, and quite frankly unless you knew the persons voice if using a real photo, you will have extreme difficulty ever realizing this is a deepfake, with much better control on how you want the video to look. While image to video certainly isn't new (and neither is lipsync), what is remarkable is just how good and realistic the voice and lipsync is with Veo 3 on image to video using only the image and a prompt. One big drawback so far is it doesn't do vertical videos yet but that is likely to change in the near future.
I'm being paid to promote it this week with free access for promotion purposes and it's really something else (you can use it with Gemini Pro / Ultra as well and Pro often has the first month free if you want to try it out).
This is perfect if you want to create your own persona, or want to generate videos with voice acting with a consistent style (for a movie for example).
"Nayyar said he was trying to make something that looked as realistic as possible, but at the same time he claims people would use "common sense" and conclude they were made with AI."
Hahah, sure they would. I can't believe this guy actually spoke to the media.
He's running into a common failure with satire... if it's not absurd enough, it's not clear in the slightest that it's a joke. A white guy complaining about immigrants on the internet is not exactly the stretch this guy thinks it is (realistically, he 100% knew exactly what he was doing).
It's interesting... everybody was worried we'd see politicians using AI video to trick people, but it's more small-time hucksters doing it. We're going to have to train people up fast to try and protect themselves from nefarious videos online. It's gonna get real bad if we're not careful (and we're not).
You can tell he's fake because he's holding on to a Tim's receipt for a coffee and doesn't have a job.
But ya, the future is going to be a very uncertain place stuffed with fake BS that is impossible to tell from reality. How do you feel wow'd or amazed by anything if anything can be created? News events will be unreliable and twisted to suit any narrative, with AI videos to prove it. Trust will be a thing of the past. How do legislators make decisions on events without fact of reality? Every country negotiating will have a different reality.
Hell, with people wearing AR glasses in the future that can alter the reality you see, perhaps without you even knowing. Many people could see different events happening, shaped by whatever app you gave permissions to. You literally will not be able to believe your eyes. Even more so with a direct brain interface.
Something about the fact that it's a brown dude making a fake video of a white dude complaining he can't get a job at Tim Hortons because of a Punjabi language requirement is near-unjustifiably hilarious to me.
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Jack Clark is the co-founder of Anthropic, an AI research company focused on building reliable and interpretable artificial intelligence systems. Before Anthropic, he was a policy director at OpenAI, where he shaped strategy, communications, and policy. With a background that spans journalism at Bloomberg, policy leadership, and deep involvement in AI governance, Clark has built a reputation for his expertise in AI safety, co-authoring influential research papers and launching the widely-read Import AI newsletter. At Anthropic, Clark guides the company’s work on creating safer and more understandable AI systems, while also engaging in discussions around AI ethics and regulation."
