Will this Yudkowsky tweet on AI video generation hold up in 2024?
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Same as this market but closes and resolves end of 2024
https://manifold.markets/journcy/will-this-yudkowsky-tweet-hold-up



"This market resolves YES if at close (end of **2024**) my subjective perception is that this was a good take (https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1563282607315382273) --e.g., AI-generated video really is that good--and NO if it seems like Eliezer was importantly wrong about something, e.g., AI-generated video still sucks, or still couldn't be the cause for serious doubt about whether some random moth footage was made with a camera or not."

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Well???

Derivative market for if this market will resolve N/A:

Emailing creator

@Manifold there's talk in teh moderators chat about N/A'ing this market if the creator does not respond.

jim humbly requests that the creator is given several months opportunity to come back and resolve this market. An N/A resolution should not be rushed into!

@jim Yeah, I'm really not a fan of the push for quick resolutions. Reading the "why haven't mods resolved yet?" comments sometimes feels like watching a retiree shake a slot machine. I guess gambling addictions are a good business model, but a norm of patience probably makes for a more pleasant community.

@placebo_username Give me a break. That’s quite a stretch for people simply wanting a timely answer. I could care less but there is no reason to go all holier than thou with your comment.

Looking like it will resolve N/A now... sucks for me

I think it is clearly the case that most of us do think "is this an AI generated video?" when seeing videos on Twitter. Most of us think a bit and then decide 'yes' or 'no' fairly firmly. But first thought being a question? Absolutely.

@Duncn yes, I've had to think about it disconertingly often

@Duncn I have not yet had this experience. Every AI video I have come across I have easily identified as AI within the first few seconds of "what am I looking at?"

@TiredCliche How could you possibly know that? How do you know that every video you've seen that was 'real' wasn't generated by AI?

Does the market creator get an alert when it closes?

Lord, we need to discuss how bad AI video is. This cannot be put off any longer.

@TiredCliche who's He gonna strike down?

Personally, I think the tweet clearly holds up. But after going in with a few thousand mana, I've pulled out of this market completely. It seems like the primary disagreement is not about the state of AI video generation but rather about how to interpret the resolution criteria. Some people are gonna get really mad, one way or the other.

opened a Ṁ8,000 YES at 41% order

@EMcNeill exactly! The market is still at ~50% despite agreement on most of the underlying facts. So I've put up YES limit orders for anyone who wants to divest YES or invest NO before the market ends in ~3 hours. 4000 @ 51%, 4000 @ 46%, 8000 @ 41%

opened a Ṁ5,000 YES at 55% order

19 hours to go. Put up a limit order expiring in ~an hour -- last chance to build a position!

can someone drop the result of "beautiful video of 15 different moth species flapping their wings, professional photography, 8k, trending on Twitter" on veo2? bonus points if VideoFX actually lets you make the video 77 seconds long in 2024.

@bil yud's tweet specifically said "anytime you see a video" - so if the vid being over 1 minute long is a DEAD giveaway that it wasn't fully made by ai, it doesn't hold up yet imo. twitter, youtube, tiktok all display vid length as soon as you start watching

@bil it's multiple short clips though. Can just concatenate 15 different AI generated videos into one

@bil but yeah, some nuance here given that he does refer to "15 different..." as part of the prompt in the tweet

@bil I think even for a short video, veo2 can't get moth flapping wings anything close to what the real video looks like. We're just in the honeymoon period of a new model being announced and people's eyes haven't adjusted yet to seeing all the failure modes

@bil I also don't think the prompt he wrote is necessarily the best description of that video either. Doing the inverse operation / backtranslation is unlikely to reproduce something that matches the original even with a cracked generative model.

@MalachiteEagle Worrying about the exact wording of the prompt is again taking the tweet too literally. The question is whether underlying "take" was "good", not whether the tweet is literally true.

Imagine a world in which 90% of trending videos are AI-generated, but they're all 15 seconds long - would you really argue for a NO resolution in that case?

@placebo_username I broadly agree 👍

@placebo_username yeah, i agree that the actual prompt wording doesn't matter. my interpretation of the underlying take is basically "reasonably widespread AI is capable of generating videos of similar beauty, complexity, and fidelity to that moth video," and being able to handle 15 different moth species in one prompt is way cooler than having to stitch 15 vids yourself!

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