I'm currently hosting a video generation website, also on a single GPU (with a queue), which is also something I didn't even think possible a few years ago (my show HN from earlier today, coincidentally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388819). Interesting times.
This on the other hand happily pretends to match any kind of realism requested like a skilled painter would, with the tradeoff mainly being control and artistic errors.
It has fastwan ... probably will have this soon. it's a request in multiple tickets: https://github.com/deepbeepmeep/Wan2GP/issues
I actually think we are already there with quality, but nobody is going to wait 10 minutes to do a task with video that takes 2 seconds with text.
If Sora/Kling/whatever ran cool locally 24/7 at 60FPS, would anyone ever build a UI? Or a (traditional) OS?
I think it's worth watching the scaling graph.
I like my buttons to stay where I left them.
I do like my buttons to stay where I left them - but that can be conditioned. instead of gnome "designers" telling me the button needs to be wide enough to hit with my left foot, I could tell the system I want this button to be small and in that corner - and add it to my prompt.
That will be Windows 12 and perhaps 2 generations in of iOS :)
Now, I've not tested TurboDiffusion yet, but I am very actively generating AI video, I probably did a half hour of finished video clips yesterday. There is no test for this issue yet, and for the majority it is yet to be realized as an issue.
[1] https://neurips.cc/virtual/2025/loc/san-diego/poster/121952
We’ve seen this play out before, when social media first came to prominence. I’m too old and cynical to believe anything will happen. But I really don’t know what to do about it at a person level. Even if I refuse to engage in this content, and am able to identify it, and keep my family away from it…it feels like a critical mass of people in my community/city/country are going to be engaging with it. It feels hopeless.
The best way in that case is education of the kids / people and automatically flag potentially harmful / disgusting content and let the owner of the device set-up the level of filtering he wants.
Like with LLMs they should be somewhat neutral in default mode but they should never refuse a request if user asks.
Otherwise the line between technology provider and content moderator is too blurry, and tomorrow SV people are going to abuse of that power (or be coerced by money or politics).
At a person / parent level, time limits (like you can do with web filtering device for TikTok), content policy would solve and taking time to spend with the kids as much as possible and to talk to them so they don’t become dumber and dumber due to short videos.
But totally opposed that it should be done on public policy level: “now you have right to watch pornography but only after you give ID to prove you are adult” (this is already the case in France for example)
It can quickly become: “now to watch / generate controversial content, you have to ID”
Could it destroy the society? The humanity had lived through bunch of such actual substances, and always got bored of it in matters of decades... those risk talks feel a bit overblown to me.
They highlight reduced workplace productivity as a risk, among other things.