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Back when computers took up a whole room, you'd also have asked: "but what exactly is this useful for? B-Roll some simple calculations that anybody can do with a piece of paper and a pen."?

Think 5-10 years into the future, this is a stepping stone

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That's comparing apples to oranges though isn't it? Generating videos is the output of the technology, not the tech itself. It would be like someone asking "this computer that takes up a whole room printed out ascii art, what is this useful for?"

all the "creative" gen ai does a thing worse and more annoying than what exists now. the first computers did calculations faster and faster with immediate utility (for defense mostly)

this is kind of an unfair comparison. Whats the endpoint of generating AI videos? What can this do that is useful, contributes something to society, has artistic value, etc etc. We can make educational videos with a script but its also pretty easy for motivated parties to do that already, and its getting easier as cameras get better and smaller. I think asking "whats the point of this" is at least fair.

The end point is enabling people to put into video what is in their mind. Like a word processor for video. When you remove the need to have a room full of VFX artists to make a movie, then anyone can make a movie. Whether this is beneficial is dubious, but that's an end goal if you are looking for one.

They’re a way firo

They were calculating missile trajectories, everybody understood what they were useful for.

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=164a442a-1b90...

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