Comment by latexr
1 year ago
> Not nearly as impressive as Sora. Sora was impressive because the clips were long and had lots of rapid movement
The most impressive Sora demo was heavily edited.
1 year ago
> Not nearly as impressive as Sora. Sora was impressive because the clips were long and had lots of rapid movement
The most impressive Sora demo was heavily edited.
To Shy Kids credit they made it clear the Sora footage was heavily edited, but OpenAIs site still presents Air Head without that context.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFzXwBZgB88 (posted the day after the short debuted)
https://openai.com/index/sora-first-impressions (no mention of editing, nor do they link to the above making-of video)
There is now on that second link:
>The videos below were edited by the artists, who creatively integrated Sora into their work, and had the freedom to modify the content Sora generated.
Ha, here's an archive from yesterday for posterity.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240513050023/https://openai.co...
They also just added a link to the making-of video.
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Interesting to see that OpenAI was successful in creating their own reality distortion spells, just like Apple's reality distortion field which has fooled many of these commenters here.
It's quite early to race to the conclusion that one is better than the other when not only they are both unreleased, but especially when the demos can be edited, faked or altered to look great for optics and distortion.
EDIT: It appears there is at least one commenter who replied below that is upset with this fact above.
It is OK to cope, but the truth really doesn't care especially when the competition (Google) came out much stronger than expected with their announcements.
Well, as a counterpoint, Apple did become a $2 trillion dollar company...
Distortion is easiest when the products really work. :)
Apple got up to $3 trillion back in 2023.
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I believe it was clear that Air Head was an edited video.
The intention wasn't to show "This is what Sora can generate from start to end" but rather "This is what a video production team can do with Sora instead of shooting their own raw footage."
Maybe not so obvious to others, but for me it was clear from how the other demo videos looked.