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by saiya-jin 856 days ago
The thing is, you run the same prompt twice and you get twice an unique result. Its trivial to keep asking for more renditions of given scene till you are happy with it, even kids can do this and certainly somebody in sweatshop in Vietnam can do that too. You literally need 1 person a bit of computer power. So instead of team of pixar and disney you have 1 guy with the product and some aws prepaid computing.

Now I don't know how long it took openai to put together that 10 minute demo video, if they ran 3x the resulting prompts or 100x more and had to cherry pick hard (ie that bird's head, I was expecting heavy morphing of those feathers but they kept their visual consistency, for sure this was not the first attempt with at-glance-perfect result).

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sama sat on twitter during that day and rendered prompts from people on the fly, so those weren't heavily cherry-picked. I didn't watch most of them and they had some bugs for sure, but if they had had to cherry-pick like 1 of 100 for the blog demos he would never have sat and done live renders like that.
Just imagine what it could do with a storyboard