There's only one highly monetizable use for AI video generation but unfortunately it's fake revenge porn. You'll know the whole thing is about to collapse when the frontier models break that glass (as OpenAI is already preparing to do with sexting).

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Frost1x 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why does it need to be revenge porn? Pretty sure regular old porn has a large market there where people can specify what they idealistically want to see vs trying to find it, if it exists.

Not every place has LEGO incest porn… or whatever the kids are into these days.

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bandrami 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not deeply immersed in the AI porn space but here's what I see from the ads when I surf without a blocker:

1. There's an AI-based virtual girlfriend industry that mixes text and images

2. There's an AI-based virtual boyfriend industry that is essentially all text (and not always distinguishable from the normal chat models)

3. There's a much shadier AI-based "undress this specific woman" industry

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UncleMeat 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

People make revenge porn to humiliate people. Regular old porn can't achieve that goal.

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andrewflnr 4 hours ago | parent [-]

And yet, regular porn is highly monetizable, which was the actual question.

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bandrami 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Surprisingly no; it's pretty much a money sink where everybody goes bankrupt after a couple of years. It's why it's attractive to money launderers.

	▲	pjc50 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not sure that's true for onlyfans, which seems to have been highly profitable until the sudden death of its founder.

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AlexCoventry 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> There's only one highly monetizable use for AI video generation

Yeah, marketing. Which is a huge market...

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coderenegade 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I for one can't wait for ChatGPT-style sexting to become a thing.

It's not just dirty talk. It's a whole new paradigm in verbal filth.

On the topic of sora, though: current models are astounding. I watched a clip of Leonidas, Aragorn, William Wallace, Gandalf etc. all casually riding into a generic medieval town together, and if you showed that to me a few years ago, it would have seemed like magic. We're not far off from concerts featuring only dead artists, and all video and image testimony becoming unreliable. Maybe Sora was a victim of timing or mismanagement, because I don't see how this isn't still a seismic shift in the entertainment industry.

	▲	pjc50 43 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> all video and image testimony becoming unreliable This is a "seismic shift" in the sense of the Big One hitting California. The knock on effects of trust erosion caused by AI are going to huge and potentially unrecoverable.
	▲	bandrami 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I mean, you just outlined why it won't be a seismic shift: the only way the videos reliably stay on-model is if that model violates someone's copyright. And then when the movie is made the output itself isn't copyrightable (the ultimate arrangement may be but no individual frame is).

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duskwuff 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There are others! They're just all horrible and generally revolve around weaponized misinformation - personalized scams, for instance.

	▲	bandrami 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh right. There's a bunch of panicky news stories in India about that right now. Fake video calls from your nephew in the UK or whatever needing money for an emergency