There are SO many use cases! I maintain we're not even scratching the surface here. You could programmatically reskin video based on crowd participation, you could re-texture VR spaces on the fly. The space of cool shit that you can do with this stuff is growing far faster than we're able to explore it right now.
I can't reply to dead comment, but I'll reply to yours RE above:
> You can rip off other people's work faster than ever!
I have views on IP that mean I reject the ripping off premise on it's face, BUT IF I DID ACCEPT IT
Who am I ripping off? What artist is being denied work if i reskin a VR world on the fly with AI? nobody was going to be painting a scene's worth of textures in a few seconds, the AI is enabling new cool things that haven't been seen before, y'all are absolutely out to lunch replying to a comment specifically calling out brand new things that weren't possible before with this garbage.
It's so interesting to me that hackernews will flag any comment that dissents to the use of this technology. Supposedly it's irrelevant to the conversation.
The value of these models is derived from the training set, not the ml model. Take away the training data and the model does nothing. So who cares if you reskin your vr world on the fly with AI? I'd argue many artists whose work was ingested into these models without consent care very much about that. Many of them have voiced their concerns publicly. So yeah, go ahead and use this bullshit. But you don't get to just ignore the ethics around it. If you want people like me to shut up and let you enjoy your automated slop, use licensed training sets. Until then, this technology is built on exploitation and alienation.
Also, you don't just get to dismiss intellectual property because you don't like it. It would be awesome if we lived in some utopia where people didn't need to leverage their skills to eat and pay rent. We don't live in that economy, and I don't think corporate AI is going to get us there unless Microsoft shareholders suddenly become bleeding hearts. Nearly every single dev on this site makes their living off of proprietary code, so it's really rich for y'all to just dismiss the concerns of people whose work is being used for this without permission.
I have the opposite view of you on the IP front (former 'pirate'), but your critique of HN flagging is spot on.
How do you interpret modern web design where everything looks like everything else? Is the next boring SPA also problematic IP usage?
These are genuine questions and not meant as an irritant. My view on IP is fairly extreme and I appreciate views that discourage such. Nothing you said about artists needing to eat moved the needle, though I can understand why it would for another person.
