One year ago, Hollywood studio Lionsgate was selling its entire catalogue to AI startup Runway to train a video model. Lionsgate vice-chairman Michael Burns looked forward to “cutting-edge, capital…
  • BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish
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    5 days ago

    A year in, there’s just one problem — AI video still doesn’t work. Two people told The Wrap: [The Wrap]

    The Lionsgate catalog is too small to create a model. In fact, the Disney catalog is too small to create a model.

    Google Veo 3 can’t keep a scene together, keep characters consistent, or take direction — and that’s training on twenty years of YouTube.

    Oh no, who could have seen this coming (except every single artist both inside and outside the film industry)

    • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Hey I’m not an artist or really familiar with film and I also could’ve told you this

      It’s not even that hard to grasp, ChatGPT is trained on all of human textual output it can be and it can’t write a coherent story, Copilot is trained on all of open-source code in existence and it can’t write a correct line of C++, obviously a film model is not gonna be any better

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Yes. Haha. Art is a skill that takes decades to master, and computers are simultaneously quite clever while deeply stupid.