Comment by iamacyborg
2 days ago
> There are going to be a million other things that move the economics away from scarcity and take away the profitability.
What we’re really talking about here is the consolidated of power under a few tech elites. Saying it’s a luddite argument is a red herring.
A whole lot of what I use every day especially for images and audio is open source. The open source AI video is getting pretty good these days as well. Better than the sora that I pay for anyways. Granted not nearly as good as veo3 yet.
So long as Nvidia doesn't nerf their consumer cards and we keep getting more and more vram I can see open source competing.
I’m yet to see these models produce anything actually good yet, paid or otherwise. On the bright side the movie industry seems to have actually been smart and still makes extensive use of unions which should help protect actual artists.
I guess everyone's definition of good is different. The fact that an AI won an art competition [1] back in 2022 and it's now way better than that says something. I'm almost positive if you got some great AI artists and put them up against some great real artists you'd have a very hard time telling the difference / picking the winners. This is the kind of bias we're taught not to have as young children (blind hatred of x because x is bad) but I see all too often right now.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/technology/ai-artificial-...