Here's their example gallery: https://hpcaitech.github.io/Open-Sora/
Compared to the outputs from other models run on consumer grade GPUs, I'd say those are very good.
Looking better than other things that are also bad is sort interesting in that it represents progress in some direction, but it isn't very interesting to people outside of the topic.
Adding the word 'just' doesnt make it any easier. Something I've noticed is that people who have never done something themselves and are telling someone to do an difficult task, will use:
"Just"
in-front of it.
This is particularly relevant in tech.
The hyphen is erroneous here: 'morph-y' would be pronounced like 'morph why', and has the structure of a compound modifier without making any sense as one.
Indeed, sometimes I'll use the -y construction when I'm inventing an adjective from a noun like this, especially if omitting it looks "wrong" to me because it's an invented word (not sure if I would've for "morphy" but whatever).
I don't know if you're a native speaker and there's some kind of cultural or generational gap here where some of us are more/less particular about this than others or if you're a non-native speaker trying to be helpful but underestimating the flexibility of casual written English.
More AI slop for everyone.
(it makes me mad that similar arguments are often brought when discussing mobile phones' walled garden policies)
well, they kinda do, but here's the thing
when you're old, all the tech that's out will be alien to you
I'm not even middle aged, I'm a tech enthusiast, and nonetheless it is happening to me already. new UI and new tools all happening too fast to keep up
we should be trying to do something about this for ourselves, not just for our mothers
This is going to make filmmaking cheap and accessible to a broad audience, and that's nothing short of a miracle.
I typically do each year's 48 hour film project with a team of 8 or more people. This year I did it with myself and an editor, and it was amazing - no 6 AM trip to the prop house, no lifting heavy props from the top shelf, no signing location release forms, no sweltering lights. I didn't have to put on makeup or do blocking for hours. (I used mocap, rotoscoping, and compositing.)
I've been using AI diffusion canvases to design - something I'd previously found entirely intimidating and unapproachable. I'm having so much fun and enjoyment with this.
I don't see the world the same way, and I don't get this negativity.
Having said that, it's pretty impressive.
Has nothing to do with AI directly.
If this is indeed the "future of making movies," I dunno, I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I have no interest in watching anything made this way. Sorry. If you don't care enough about your project to do something besides AI prompts, I don't think you have anything to say that I need to hear.
I'm still burned out on "regular" CG in movies. I'd be much more excited about a (hypothetical) return to practical effects than a push even further into computer imagery.
I kept watching, noticing small bits here and there, subtle things, but there was not much CGI compared to almost any other action movie I've seen in the last several years, especially not much of any obvious full green screen sets and fly-by-wire wuxia heroism BS.
... with hammers
If I was very optimistic, I'd hope that people would question more what they see and hear and read to due to widespread of "Gen AI tools".
In reality that will most likely not happen, but yeah, one can hope.
And on job loss: Jobs come and go, nobody cared much about carriage drivers when cars took off...
With AI, the demand for that skillset is diminishing as is the need for people at all.
We're heading towards a Solaria situation, where the rich genuinely might no longer need to employ the masses, or sell them products. What would you do if you had a magic box that met all your needs? Pay a consultant? Hire a gardener? Call a maid? Request an escort? Why.
