VEO 3 and the Turing Threshold
First videos coming out about VEO3 on Reddit and X:
- “Made a comprehensive compilation of all the things people have been generating with VEO 3. Pure insanity!”
- “**Both video and audio is AI but it feels so real” (footage from a fake car show)”**
- “a man ejaculates in his pants in front of a huge crowd during a twerking contest and is mocked by the announcers”
Reactions:
“Human Cinema and audiovisual arts in general are going to die as a corporate industry but very likely survive as an artisanal industry very much like every other manual art and craft has carried out after each automation revolution, people didn’t stop painting oils when color photography was invented or stopped knitting when automatic looms came online. The demand for human products will always be there but I still feel bad for kids just getting into these careers because being an artisan can just suck”
“This is exponential tech growth. There is no time to prep the general public for this as the current level of generation prior to it being used as a propaganda tool. One of the clearest signs of the exponential tech curve is the literal inability to introduce new tech schemas to the broad public alongside their release. By the time the public has grasped that we are already here, the tech will have doubled in detail and verisimilitude. I don’t know what to do with this thought.”
“Yes, this is similar IMO to the Cambrian Explosion, where it seems life evolved hard-shelled bodies and then for a period of time there was so much change that it was impossible to track. The achievement of Turing-level generative AI has triggered the same thing in the world now and we’re in the middle of it.”