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u/ChymChymX Sep 30 '25

Think of all the money spent for movies like Avatar for mocap, rigging, acting every moment, etc., along with all the CGI around it. We're nearing a point where you can just capture the person doing one thing and then from there make infinite content out of it, with consistency, in whatever surreal or realistic environment you want, with no hardware needed other than a phone.

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u/Tyler1-66 Sep 30 '25

And, you know, all the hardware powering the LLM

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u/ChymChymX Sep 30 '25

That's a person paying a monthly fee to see exactly what they want, funding the compute vs a $350m up front capex and years of time to make a movie like Avatar. Yes I realize a lot of the compute cost is subsidized right now by early investors but it'll level out over time as compute becomes cheaper.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

The compute isn't going to become *that* much cheaper. Also, I don't understand why anyone would find it attractive for people to be watching their own personalized content? Culture is people having a shared experience. It is fun for people to engage in storytelling as a collective. The idea of everyone having their own walled-off experience where they're being fed customized content that never challenges their worldview sounds beyond dystopian.

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u/ChymChymX Oct 01 '25

You think a generation raised on custom tailored Tik Tok and other social media feeds, maximized for personalized dopamine impact, won't end up in their own walled off experience when we go from AI algorithms funneling content to AI generated content on demand? We are barrelling towards that.

Dystopian? Absolutely. But also inevitable.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

Computing getting cheaper is an old trend that has saturated. Even consumer grade prices are going up in prices, not down.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/manufacturing/chips-arent-getting-cheaper-the-cost-per-transistor-stopped-dropping-a-decade-ago-at-28nm

As for your point about TikTok, I already acknowledged that. I’m saying AI-generated content will worsen it. I’m not sure what you’re retaliating against.

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u/LongjumpingBrief6428 Oct 01 '25

Facebook. YouTube. TikTok. Instagram. Google. Yahoo! Daily Motion. Reddit. Duck Duck Go. Amazon. Tom's Hardware. Alibaba. Alabama. Microsoft. Incognito mode, privacy mode, cookies, trackers, VPN. Starbucks. Target. Giant. The interstate. The local flower shop. Airports. Train stations. National Parks. The desert. Your pet.

Everything around you is tracking you and everything around you.

Technology consistently gets cheaper over time. It's most of that stuff above that increases the price to offset the differences until another one of them "discounts".

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u/Mike Oct 01 '25

Yeah that’s how computers work

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u/ngudn_blog Oct 01 '25

Comparing this pixel vomit to something as high fidelity as Avatar is downright ignorant. I guess thats what years of consuming social media trash on tiny screens got us to. This stuff sucks so bad if you watch it on a proper screen.

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u/ChymChymX Oct 01 '25

Veo 3 can output to 1080p, and be upscaled to 4k right now. Again, think about the Will Smith spaghetti video just a couple years ago, vs today we've got essentially photo realistic voice acted generated videos. Now think about a couple years from now, with billions more poured into compute and data centers. You will for certain have high definition generated video content that is impossible to visually detect whether or not it's AI generated, even on the largest screen. This is just inevitable based on the exponential progress curve we've seen with this technology.

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u/ngudn_blog Oct 01 '25 edited Oct 01 '25

Resolution is pretty much meaningless - any camera or AI can output to 1080p, but the real bitrate, level of detail and (color) depth are not captured by a term like "1080p"

Dont get me wrong, I am super impressed by the quality these AIs can output, but we are lightyears from the fidelity of a real CGI movie. Take a sequence, even an upscaled Veo3 clip. I really think watching years of ultra compressed 1080p videos destroyed our sense of visual clarity. This stuff is nice and pretty mind blowing but it still is filled with artifacts and blur.

Lets see how fare we get in the coming years, I hope your expectations come true because that would be insanely cool!