"Sora 2, Open AI’s new AI video generator, puts a visual watermark on every video it generates. But the little cartoon-eyed cloud logo meant to help people distinguish between reality and AI-generated bullshit is easy to remove and there are half a dozen websites that will help anyone do it in a few minutes.

A simple search for “sora watermark” on any social media site will return links to places where a user can upload a Sora 2 video and remove the watermark. 404 Media tested three of these websites, and they all seamlessly removed the watermark from the video in a matter of seconds.
Hany Farid, a UC Berkeley professor and an expert on digitally manipulated images, said he’s not shocked at how fast people were able to remove watermarks from Sora 2 videos. “It was predictable,” he said. “Sora isn’t the first AI model to add visible watermarks and this isn’t the first time that within hours of these models being released, someone released code or a service to remove these watermarks.”"

https://www.404media.co/sora-2-watermark-removers-flood-the-web/

#AI #GenerativeAI #GeneratedVideo #OpenAI #Sora2 #Watermarks

"Researchers have found that the carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into images and videos is far worse than we previously thought.

As detailed in a new paper, researchers from the open-source AI platform Hugging Face found that the energy demands of text-to-video generators quadruple when the length of a generated video doubles — indicating that the power required for increasingly sophisticated generations doesn’t scale linearly.

For instance, a six-second AI video clip consumes four times as much energy as a three-second clip.

“These findings highlight both the structural inefficiency of current video diffusion pipelines and the urgent need for efficiency-oriented design,” the researchers concluded in their paper.

Experts are warning that we’re rolling out generative AI tools without a full grasp of their true environmental impacts."

https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-power-usage-text-to-video-generator

#AI #GenerativeAI #GeneratedVideo #Video #AIVideo #Energy

*Well, that was edifying. #generatedvideo #slop #characteristics #artifacts #glitches #genres #businessmodels youtu.be/fOEqDygg56w?...

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Some of the videos included in this article are absolutely astonishing!!

"With Veo 3's ability to generate convincing video with synchronized dialogue and sound effects, we're not witnessing the birth of media deception—we're seeing its mass democratization. What once cost millions of dollars in Hollywood special effects can now be created for pocket change.

As these tools become more powerful and affordable, skepticism in media will grow. But the question isn't whether we can trust what we see and hear. It's whether we can trust who's showing it to us. In an era where anyone can generate a realistic video of anything for $1.50, the credibility of the source becomes our primary anchor to truth. The medium was never the message—the messenger always was."

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/ai-video-just-took-a-startling-leap-in-realism-are-we-doomed/

#AI #GenerativeAI #GeneratedVideo #Google #DeepMind #Veo3 #MediaManipulation #DeepFakes

"It’s happening right now around all of us: the new AI world. I am a big believer in not letting robots dream for us. Robots cannot reflect the human condition for us. That is a dead end if an actor lets one AI robot manipulate his or her performance even a little bit, an inch will eventually become a mile and all integrity, purity and truth of art will be replaced by financial interests only. We can’t let that happen.

“The job of all art in my view, film performance included, is to hold a mirror to the external and internal stories of the human condition through the very human thoughtful and emotional process of recreation. A robot can’t do that. If we let robots do that, it will lack all heart and eventually lose edge and turn to mush. There will be no human response to life as we know it. It will be life as robots tell us to know it.

“I say, protect yourselves from AI interfering with your authentic and honest expressions.”"

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/nicolas-cage-slams-ai-robots-cannot-reflect-human-condition-1236294371/

#AI #GenerativeAI #GeneratedVideo #Hollywood #Film #Cinema

I've spent a lot of time in the past year playing around with generated video ("AI"), trying different techniques to make content engaging and lifelike.

This week, I saw a video shared by a Canadian politician, being interviewed on US network TV. I won't link to it - I don't want provide more visibility to the politician or the subject matter.

I couldn't get over how bot-like this politician looked - eyes blinking, mouth moving - that was about it. #bot #avatar #generatedvideo #ai #politics