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AI-generated video of Will Smith eating spaghetti astounds with terrible beauty
Amid this past week's controversies in AI over regulation, fears of world-ending doom, and job disruption, the clouds have briefly parted. For a brief and shining moment, we can enjoy an absolutely ridiculous AI-generated video of Will Smith eating spaghetti that is now lighting up our lives with its terrible glory.
On Monday, a Reddit user named "chaindrop" shared the AI-generated video on the r/StableDiffusion subreddit. It quickly spread to other forms of social media and inspired mixed ruminations in the press. For example, Vice said the video will "haunt you for the rest of your life," while the AV Club called it the "natural end point for AI development."
Then again, could just be the start of MIB:AI Continuum.
(Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Friday March 31, @02:31PM
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Friday March 31, @05:23PM
It seems strangely appropriate at this stage that the AI generated Smith appears to have reduced cranial capacity, fetal alcohol syndrome, or some other severe genetic abnormality. Maybe the AI needs more training data so he won't be inbred.
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(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday March 31, @06:03PM (3 children)
If this [wikipedia.org] might become a reality. I certainly wouldn't be surprised.
Getting paid for sitting on your ass and let the entertainment industry use your likeness and voice? I'm down.
Of course, it more likely means that entertainment celebrities are going to become a thing of the past, as if you can auto-generate video of a real person (whom you'd need to pay), you can auto-generate video of a non-existent person and not have to pay actors at all.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 01, @12:34AM (2 children)
Actually it means the death of cinema and Hollywood itself as the estates of deceased legends outshine living actors.
No one is going to sit through 90 minutes of the latest millennial snorefest with Adam Driver and Margot Robbie when they could download Lauren Bacall fucking River Phoenix,
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Saturday April 01, @07:33AM (1 child)
An interesting thought.
But I don't believe that real human voices and likenesses would be free to use.
But using voices/features of folks that don't exist won't demand royalties/residuals, while the estates/descendants of real actors will.
As with most things, follow the money.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 01, @11:41AM
Unless you're using someone else's made-up voices and features or even that yours is too close to someone else's IP. It's probably worth recalling what happened to sampling [wikipedia.org]. One of the most famous samples is something called the Amen break (more here [soylentnews.org] from an AC post in 2016) - a six second sample from a 1969 song that ended up (as of 2021) in over 5000 pieces of music.
One interesting feature is that the Amen break is de facto open source. The creators never realized it was being used for ten years, then were too poor to sue anyone, and it's now almost 40 years later. There's probably a lot of other samples out there that could achieve similar status - except that someone owns them. Maybe we'll get a lot of open source voices/features. But if not, well, that's going to hamper things. It may get to the point where someone's likeness is cheaper!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday March 31, @06:51PM
If the Will Smith can be artificial, then can't the meat in the spaghetti also be artificial? Or is it a vegetarian dish? But wait, I read somewhere, oh, yeah, on the front page, that Italy is banning lab grown meat to protect food heritage.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday March 31, @08:58PM (1 child)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday March 31, @09:15PM
If it is the dream of an AI neural network, maybe that explains it.
Sort of like that other recent headline fake photo of the pope wearing a puffer jacket. There were a few warbly artifacts in that one as well.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 01, @07:52PM
The test of italian citizenship should be "make spaghetti and eat them". Those who botch it should be sent to education camps. Needless to say, this way of eating spaghetti would earn you un calcio in culo.