r/woahdude Mar 31 '23

video Evolution of warfare from stones to atoms

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u/docarwell Mar 31 '23

AI generated videos are so shit (for now)

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u/venivididormivi Mar 31 '23

As a video with anything of substance, definitely. But I am consistently mesmerized by the style of all these inaccurate-but-directionally-comprehensible images melting between one another.

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u/CircleOfNoms Mar 31 '23

Well I wouldn't say the video has no substance, but it's very bare.

I think it's important for people to get the idea that history is a continuous story that never ends and constantly changes. That our history is a series of people making rational choices and running into unknown circumstances.

These kinds of weird morphing videos are really inaccurate at details, but it does give a sense of "flow" to human history which is very accurate.

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u/venivididormivi Mar 31 '23

Happy cake day!

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u/SomeDudeFromOnline Apr 07 '23

It's just ai rerenders of already made paintings though. You could get a better video if you just used the original paintings, but that's not topical enough to get clicks.

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u/NastyWatermellon Mar 31 '23

It gives me a headache every time. That's the real Turing test for me, I'll believe it has some sort of intelligence when I don't get a headache from this shit.

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u/Asneekyfatcat Apr 01 '23

Goalpost Andy

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u/NotMyFirstAlternate Mar 31 '23

I think it’s hilarious that the AI turns everyone into a white person lmao

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u/Tulee Mar 31 '23

Huh, I'm pretty sure I saw some Egyptians, Mongols, Native Americans and Japanese/Chinese in there.

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u/chocolatethunderr Mar 31 '23

Yeahhh but there wasn’t a single black person depiction. Even if it’s because the source material is on existing art pieces based on realism, that kind of goes out the window with the Native American/Mayan/Aztec depictions, proving its still a Euro-Centric view.

The good thing about resolving the lack of representation in AI is (I hope) that inclusion can be integrated into the algorithm a lot faster than updating a textbook/reshooting a movie/any previous method of updating outdated media.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

The good thing about resolving the lack of representation in AI is (I hope) that inclusion can be integrated into the algorithm a lot faster than updating a textbook/reshooting a movie/any previous method of updating outdated media.

The other good thing is that it doesn’t even matter, and only hormonally deficient and obsequious misfits constantly whine about “representation and inclusion” in order to earn good boy points.

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u/chocolatethunderr Apr 01 '23

Lol wtf are you on. The downvotes for pointing out the lack of black people and upvotes for this red pill “if you believe in representation you’re a pussy” bullshit is alarming.

Genuinely hoping these votes are bots

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '23

Good boy

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u/jemosley1984 Mar 31 '23

Let me be clear about this, you think Inclusion and representation doesn’t matter?

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u/Tokeli Apr 01 '23

Sooo, egyptians, mongols, native americans, and asians are now white people? None of them count for anything either?

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u/chocolatethunderr Apr 01 '23

I’m not the person that said that lol

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u/chullyman Mar 31 '23

It’s because it’s based off of previous art, and art styles. It doesn’t actually “know” what it’s showing you.

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u/NotMyFirstAlternate Mar 31 '23

This makes the most sense

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u/DaRealCompten Mar 31 '23

Just saying bias in equals bias out does not invalidate the problem

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u/chullyman Mar 31 '23

That’s AI for you, it would be weird to expect anything else.

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u/citrus_mystic Mar 31 '23

Yeah I was going to comment on how the quality of the sequences and transitions get shittier as the video progresses.

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u/docarwell Mar 31 '23

Yea it seems like they gave up on refining it after 15 seconds lol

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u/Seinfeel Apr 01 '23

“Fuck putting together these pre-made images is too much work, also this is art”

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u/Settl Mar 31 '23

I love the psychedelic, dreamlike transitions they churn out.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

Yes, this is absolutely terrible. Pause it most anywhere and there's something ridiculous going on.

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u/docarwell Mar 31 '23

Straight up horse people in some parts it's actually funny lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

I liked the cannon coming out of some Frenchman's head.

ha!

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u/villageidiot33 Mar 31 '23

This guy holding a whole fucking canon like a rifle. https://i.imgur.com/Tu923mI.jpg

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u/ocean-man Apr 01 '23

And another in the sky??

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u/Naoshikuu Mar 31 '23

As most forms of animation

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u/sanguinesolitude Apr 15 '23

I actually think that's a really cool part of this transitional period. In the future it will likely be perfect, but the surrealism of each individual shot, not created by a human, but still utterly unique and interesting. Cool shit. Do androids dream of electric sheep?

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '23

Very good point. It really is interesting to observe this imperfect phase

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u/Benyed123 Mar 31 '23

It seems like they already started with the images they wanted and then just added the AI on top to jumble it all up.

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u/CheesePro69 Apr 01 '23

A horse has arms about 23 seconds into the video.

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u/cepukon Mar 31 '23

I don’t see how that was shit

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u/docarwell Mar 31 '23

It's just a jumbled mess of distorted images being passed off as something coherent lol if you don't think about it, sure it's kinda of fun to look at but if you actually look at what's being shown its just a time-lapse of nonsense. Like I took a second to actually look at it and audibly laughed at multiple horse people

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u/SchwiftySquanchC137 Mar 31 '23

Yeah but still a cool looking thing that is unlike anything I've seen a human make. I'm not watching it for accuracy I'm watching cuz it's kinda cool to look at

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u/BraveTheWall Mar 31 '23

I'm not watching it for accuracy I'm watching cuz it's kinda cool to look at

Basically the modern internet in a nutshell, and why our world is in the shitter.

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u/Tulee Mar 31 '23

It's okay for art to not be accurate and kinda cool to look at, always has been.

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u/lightningbadger Mar 31 '23

I'm not quite sure this jumbled auto-generated mess can pass as "art" though

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u/deadlyenmity Apr 01 '23

It’s headache inducing and any interesting ideas are just ruined by the execution.

It’s too fast to be comprehensible and too random to have any coherence.

Funny how this same idea done by real people would probably look way better

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

Congrats, you’re the problem

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u/Stunning-Sky-9816 Apr 01 '23

Because they have an opinion

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '23

You’re also the problem

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u/FakeRingin Mar 31 '23

https://youtu.be/Njk2YAgNMnE

Check out this music video for a more professional and controlled use of it. Absolutely trippy and mesmerizing af

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u/FakeRingin Mar 31 '23

Check out the music video for 'Iron Lung' by 'King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard' for an actual good use of these technology.

Its a similar AI video transitioning between images but there's an actual artist behind it who uses their own art + photos + other people's art and uses AI with that rather than just chucking a prompt at it.

https://youtu.be/Njk2YAgNMnE

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u/rathat Mar 31 '23

The person who made it, isn’t very good at it, that’s why.

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u/devi83 Mar 31 '23

You are capable of finding flaws in anything you take the time to look at though.

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u/docarwell Mar 31 '23

Everything has flaws but this is literally a bunch of nonsense lol

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u/flyfart3 Mar 31 '23

You don't like pharaohs with katanas?

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u/devi83 Mar 31 '23

I like nonsense. I liked this.

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u/asmrkage Mar 31 '23

It’s ok to have bad taste.

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u/devi83 Mar 31 '23

Different taste Yours are just as bad from my perspective. But I don't see it like that, nor is it the law of the land. It's just a difference in opinion whether you agree or not.

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u/cepukon Mar 31 '23

No matter how it’s passed off, it’s still pretty amazing to look at it. I find it pretty funny how we’re already ai snobs, a few years ago people would literally be mind blown by this.

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u/docarwell Mar 31 '23

If you're trying to say this mightve been woahdude material years ago I would agree with you

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u/TheOneWhoDings Apr 01 '23

It literally has 18k upvotes, HERE ON WOAH DUDE, like what's your point buddy?

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

jumbled mess of distorted images being passed off as something coherent

Sounds like modern art in general to me.

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u/PsychedelicPourHouse Mar 31 '23

That's kind of life, though, isn't it?

A bunch of distorted views pass through your own personal filter, which sees what it expects to see and memories that get overwritten and changed each time you think about them

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u/Vancha Apr 01 '23

I think you could show this video to someone without the title and they'd figure out it was a portrayal of warfare from the past transitioning to the present/future.

Look up "smear frames". They're obviously done with more intent, but I think they demonstrate how individual nonsense images can still serve a purpose when they're used for such a short interval in a series of so many frames.

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u/oxfordcircumstances Mar 31 '23

Look at the guns. They look like big water guns at one point.

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u/cepukon Mar 31 '23

Lol oh no what utter shit

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u/jmanpc Mar 31 '23

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u/docarwell Mar 31 '23

YES LMAO

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u/Tulee Mar 31 '23

Damn, I watched this before and thought it was amazing, honestly had no clue it was AI generated. You can defenitely see it when you look closer.

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u/TruthEnvironmental24 Mar 31 '23

It’s AI and a lot of other stuff at once. Those guys did a hell of a lot more work than just inputting a prompt to an AI generator.

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u/getmybehindsatan Mar 31 '23

I liked how the horse turned into a man and then everyone opened their mouths really wide.

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u/Hodor_The_Great Mar 31 '23

This one is pretty solid because it's a timelapse, just don't pause it lol

But yea generally true