Is the “Real Magic” in the room with us.

Archive for who gets paywall https://archive.is/09ZtS

(I didn’t get paywall but the verge is in my noscript blacklist)

They boast having hired 5 slop specialists that chose the least worse shots over 70000 prompts

They have something like $50 billion yearly revenue, can’t pay real people for an ad? Literally peanuts for them.

  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    2 days ago

    There are a couple more assumption that may result in costs worse than reality:

    • It is assuming each frame is independently generated. In reality, the AI model may use keyframes and interpolation which would reduce computation costs.
    • It is assuming the 70,000 prompts were all fully generated. But since AI is deterministic, taking a low resolution, low framerate sample of each prompt to discard the 99% of trash would be an easy way to save a lot of resources

    Though I am neither an AI expert nor in charge of creating AI videos so both of these suggestions may not reflect reality.

    • ZDL@lazysoci.al
      1·
      1 day ago

      Degenerative AI is the precise opposite of deterministic. It’s stochastic.

      • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        1 day ago

        No, it’s deterministic. If you control the source of random numbers (such as with a seed), you will always get the same result from the same prompt.

        Computers are mathematically incapable of randomness. Even a stochastic sampling requires randomness which will be deterministic if your source of random numbers is controlled.

        • ZDL@lazysoci.al
          1·
          18 hours ago

          So let me translate this from technobabble to English.

          If you explicitly make it non-random it’s non-random.

          Duh.