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Comment Marketing (Score 1) 12

Look at Google's genie 3 page. Especially the credits. Half of those people are marketeers, people from agencies, and video editors. When you critically look at the video you basically see some poststamp size video generations that are OK looking, but no better than like open source models like hunyuan. They show two videos with impressive consistency but like 95% of the vids are just a couple seconds long. It is suggested that the generation is realtime, but there is no indication of what kind of hardware is used for it.

Also we get no indication of the amount of cherry-picking used. Knowing google that if they'd ever release it to the world, it would be nerfed to the point of having zero fun.

As far as I know the 'world model' name comes from openai that called sora a 'world simulator'. It very much turned out to be cool but have very little knowledge on what real world physics looks like.

I believe it when I can use it.

Comment Google and pledges (Score 5, Insightful) 69

Oh hey just like that pledge not to use AI for weapons that they used to recruit top AI experts. After they did their work the pledge vanished.
Google's words are apparently worth nothing.

Of course they are well within their rights, given that they are part of the group of billionaires that purchased (or I guess leased) the governance of the united states.

Comment Re:AI isn't cheap (Score 2) 18

The big providers charge dollars per millions of tokens.

You aren't wrong about people charging large markups, but the big providers are up there as well. The price for chatgpt audio tokens is around $80 per million tokens, which adds up to around $10 per hour for a call. That is just purely for the chatgpt audio model, but you need a lot more stuff to actually make a useful product. Then in many cases the AI can't actually solve the issues and you still need a human (more cost), and then the customer is frustrated (potential loss of business is more cost).

Comment Re:The data is worth billions (Score 1) 44

Your car would be worth a billion dollars if there were no other cars. However given that cars are available everywhere it is not worth even 0.01% of that.

Reddit's data would only have this huge value if there was no other place to get it. Right now pretty much all that can be learned from Reddit is embedded in free models from facebook, deepseek and others. Cost 0. You can get indexed data from like 90% of Reddit nearly for free from common crawl at the cost of bandwidth.

There is definitely value to Reddit and its content. But nobody is going to pay a billion for a copy of their data.

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