It's worth worrying about, but there's honestly nothing you can do about it. Live AI deepfake streaming is the holy grail for scammers and phishing. It's coming faster then the world is ready for it, and no AI regulation will prevent it, as it will simply come from a non western source.
Even Open AI allows you to create your own cameo using your voice and likeness, or any character just from a video. There's money to be made in deepfakes.
All you can do is prepare for the inevitability and be ready for the AI deepfake armageddon. It's already very possible and already used in elaborate scams.
Is there an app that would let me upload a video of an awkward open mic performance and turn it into a cool performance video? Yes, it’s a pathetic cringe-worthy ask.
Realistically Wan 2.2 Animate would be your best bet. You can use it as rebranded versions on sites such as Higgsfield (they call it Higgsfield Animate). You would need to cut up your video in parts, but what you would do is upload your video, add an image of what you want to replace the scene with (maybe a concert etc) of and all of a sudden you are performing at a concert.
You may have to do some post video editing work to get a solid video. Although most of these are tailored to changing the character, you can definitely play around and get a good result. This is really the best simple option unless you want to delve into ComfyUI insanity.
Other open you can have (results may vary), upload the video as a character in Sora 2 which is a brand new feature which clips a few seconds of your video to build from, and use it to build something from it with the same character (you can even add the lyrics)
There's a few tools that can get something good, just perhaps not necessarily what you are looking for.
Quick update on my AI journey since I hit a pretty cool milestone over the weekend. On Friday I got a message from CapCut's business account. I was announced as one of 25 Audience Choice winners with a 3000$ USD grand prize along with a number of other perks for a recent contest. Considering how huge CapCut is and TikTok as a whole and the field I would have been against, it's a pretty incredible win and getting recognized on such a level.
This prize propels me to over 10k USD made since I started my journey (March 2023), and it's clearly only beginning with the momentum I built. Lots of other positives in development as well.
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LeCun, chief AI scientist of “fundamental AI research” at Meta, is expected to resign from Meta soon according to multiple reports from credible outlets. LeCun is a 65-year-old elder statesman in the world of AI science, and he has had seemingly limitless resources at his disposal working as the big AI brain at one of the world’s largest tech companies.
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He’s actually been hinting at the answer for a long time. When it comes to human-level intelligence, LeCun has become notorious lately for saying LLMs as we currently understand them are duds—no longer worth pursuing, no matter how much Big Tech scales them up. He said in April of last year that “an LLM is basically an off-ramp, a distraction, a dead end.” (The arch AI critic Gary Marcus has ripped into LeCun for “belligerently” defending LLMs from Marcus’ own critiques and then flip-flopping.)
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“If I tell you ‘imagine a cube floating in the air in front of you. Okay now rotate this cube by 90 degrees around a vertical axis. What does it look like?’ It’s very easy for you to kind of have this mental model of a cube rotating.”
With very little effort, an LLM can write a dirty limerick about a hovering, rotating cube, sure, but it can’t really help you interact with one. LeCun avers that this is because of a difference between text data and data derived from processing the many parts of the world that aren’t text.
I think this is a pretty reasonable view of the reason why LLM's are a dead end to AGI. Not to say they are useless, but we can't get there from here, no matter how much money is shove led at it. This realization may eventually pop the current AI bubble. It's also why they are not a good match to computer driving. They can't visualize the real world.
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I'd probably have that feeling too if I worked at Meta.
In all seriousness though, there is a lot of hype bubbling up for the next Google offering. I find Google bad for that (their demo videos especially), but who knows, maybe they've got something interesting.
The numbers blow GPT 5.1 completely out of the game. I was already a huge fan of Gemini Pro 2.5 for many tasks (heck I used Gemini Flash 2.5 through API for my automation workflow as it's free and yet still very strong and nimble).
Gemini 3 Pro Preview is now available on Google AI Studio if you want to try it.
Nano Banana Pro is out if you want to try it out. It's getting hammered and erroring out a lot, but with it being linked with Gemini 3 pro it can create almost anything* (No it still can't do the Denver radius map, but it can do a horse riding an astronaut). It's funny how the name Nano Banana stuck after getting so popular on LMarena under its research code name. . There's a lot of use case ideas coming out using its ability to intake multiple images. I have unlimited free use available to me so I'm testing out what I can get.
Also of note. Nvidia just went to the money printing machine with significantly higher guidance from previous already astronomical guidance.
“We’ve entered the virtuous cycle of AI. The AI ecosystem is scaling fast — with more new foundation model makers, more AI startups, across more industries, and in more countries. AI is going everywhere, doing everything, all at once," he added.
So we just had Sora 2, GPT 5.1, Grok 4.1 (actually beats GPT 5.1, it's really good), Gemini 3 Pro and Nano Banana Pro released within a couple of weeks, each one vastly improving on predecessors. Open AI seems to be in quite a panic, releasing GPT 5.1 Pro to Pro users, as Gemini 3 Pro is eating its lunch right now in terms of ability.
This prompt / post is a great example of just how powerful Nano Banana Pro gets with prompt adherence and how far you can take it (prompt is in the reply)
It's shocking in that Disney is allowing its IPs to be used for Sora, but not so shocking knowing just how deeply invested Disney is in getting rid of paying actors / artists in their quest to leverage AI. I made a post about Disney's quest last month, and they are clearly going doubling down on this path. With how advanced Sora 2 is, partnering with OpenAI who can actually deliver makes much more sense then who they partnered with previously.
With Disney the juggernaut getting onboard, others will surely follow. Also considering WMG and Suno's partnership recently, the path forward is pretty clear.
Ironically Disney also tried it, which was a disaster in results and in figuring out how to copyright AI generated work and intellectual property (quite ironic). Over promising on what is possible.
Don't get me wrong, I do think we will see fully AI generated movies in the near future, but companies are rushing to can their whole production teams before they have a working solution with companies over promising on what is effectively AI snake oil. Heck some of these projects likely started at the first Will Smith eating spaghetti video era.
It's shocking in that Disney is allowing its IPs to be used for Sora, but not so shocking knowing just how deeply invested Disney is in getting rid of paying actors / artists in their quest to leverage AI. I made a post about Disney's quest last month, and they are clearly going doubling down on this path. With how advanced Sora 2 is, partnering with OpenAI who can actually deliver makes much more sense then who they partnered with previously.
With Disney the juggernaut getting onboard, others will surely follow. Also considering WMG and Suno's partnership recently, the path forward is pretty clear.
I have a theory that AI will actually ruin the internet and in the next generation or 2 people will be far less digital than we are today. Social media will become completely useless once everything is just AI BS. I think we hit a stage where everything becomes completely tailored to you, with AI creating stuff constantly. Once the initial "wow this is pretty cool" wears off people will get tired of being force fed algorithmic entertainment and have to seek it out the old fashioned way. Music shows, plays, social gatherings.
Maybe I just hope that's how it plays out. Could also be a "Wall-E" scenario.
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I have a theory that AI will actually ruin the internet and in the next generation or 2 people will be far less digital than we are today. Social media will become completely useless once everything is just AI BS. I think we hit a stage where everything becomes completely tailored to you, with AI creating stuff constantly. Once the initial "wow this is pretty cool" wears off people will get tired of being force fed algorithmic entertainment and have to seek it out the old fashioned way. Music shows, plays, social gatherings.
Maybe I just hope that's how it plays out. Could also be a "Wall-E" scenario.
Might be something to this. I also think that the companies that strip down to the bare bones to be run by AI are going to suffer. When I see something created by AI, my brain hurts. I think that's a natural reaction many or most have.
Been using Kiro to create an app. There's no analogue for the app so it has a lot of difficulty with generation. It went full crazy a couple of days back when I asked to it complete a task. Also the test suite is now too big for it handle in a single context session.
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Might be something to this. I also think that the companies that strip down to the bare bones to be run by AI are going to suffer. When I see something created by AI, my brain hurts. I think that's a natural reaction many or most have.
If I happen to be killing a bit of time watching short-form content and I notice that something is AI generated, nope, I'm out. I immediately flag it as "Not interested in this video" and that gets me doing something else.
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Typical dumb take.
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I have a theory that AI will actually ruin the internet and in the next generation or 2 people will be far less digital than we are today. Social media will become completely useless once everything is just AI BS. I think we hit a stage where everything becomes completely tailored to you, with AI creating stuff constantly. Once the initial "wow this is pretty cool" wears off people will get tired of being force fed algorithmic entertainment and have to seek it out the old fashioned way. Music shows, plays, social gatherings.
Maybe I just hope that's how it plays out. Could also be a "Wall-E" scenario.
I'd love this sentiment to be true, but isn't the bolded already true now? Everyone's Facebook, Instagram, Tick Tok, You Tube, whatever, is basically tailored exactly to them. Since we're currently zombies to that I have my doubts that we'll get tired of being fed algorithmic entertainment - that's already true for so many people.
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I have a theory that AI will actually ruin the internet and in the next generation or 2 people will be far less digital than we are today. Social media will become completely useless once everything is just AI BS.
Social media isn't going to be completely useless, it already is.
FB/IG/TK/LI are trash and the AI content is getting a lot worse.
But more and more I feel like reddit is just a bunch of chatbots talking to each other. I find some good subs that aren't bad, but karma farmers, covert ads, and AI bots it's actually becoming really boring and lots of the same thing over and over.
