Infinity

AI

video generation

SHOW HN2024

481points
294comments
#71of 3,515 in 2024
Top 3%of 2024 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

53 positive, 67 neutral or asking, 11 mixed, 22 critical, out of 153 comments about the project. Thread score +0.23.

Idea: 14 for, 1 againstExecution: 5 for, 9 againstPerformance: 7 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 4 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Output looks realistic and expressive, with impressive lip sync and emotion

    From 3 comments
    • Hi Lina, Andrew and Sidney, this is awesome. My go-to for checking the edges of video and face identification LLMs are Personas right now -- they're rendered faces done in a…
      vessenes on HN
    • Breathtaking! First, your (Lina's) intro is perfect in honestly and briefly explaining your work in progress. Second, the example I tried had a perfect interpretation of the text…
      w10-1 on HN
    • It's incredibly good - bravo. Only thing missing for this to be immediately useful for content creation, is more variety in voices, or ideally somehow specifying a template sound…
      johnyzee on HN
  • Fun to use and produces laugh-out-loud memes

    From 3 comments
    • Have to say, whilst this tech has some creepy aspects, just playing about with this my family have had a whole sequence of laughs out loud moments - thank you!
      RobinL on HN
    • oh this made my day: https://6ammc3n5zzf5ljnz.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/inf2-clips/f35d0dda-06aa-4e04-838d-77f02a370a04-Bc10YGY5SgVAcWdgPTZlFIZYvauaJl.mp4 !NWSF --lyrics by…
      artur_makly on HN
    • This is fun! https://6ammc3n5zzf5ljnz.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/inf2-clips/026845f6-6ec5-40fd-8350-10a3a779e545-XYtTJdrc9VRxMam8PeuRqYgr9jE8oO.mp4
      hansoolo on HN
  • Works across languages, paintings and singing

    From 1 comment

Objections

  • Generation is slow

    From 2 comments
  • Videos break down or go static on longer clips and at the final frame

    From 3 comments
    • I tried making this short clip [0] of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen announcing the beginning of the clone war, and it's almost fine, but the last frame somehow completely breaks. [0]:…
      Andrew_nenakhov on HN
    • It completely falls apart on longer videos for me, unusable over 10 seconds.
      bufferoverflow on HN
    • Oh, this is amazing! I've been having so much fun with it. One small issue I've encountered is that sometimes images remain completely static. Seems to happen when the audio is…
      SlackingOff123 on HN
  • Identity drift and hands appearing in frame

    From 3 comments
    • Tried my hardest to push this into the uncanny valley. I did, but it was pretty hard. Seems robust.…
      marginalia_nu on HN
    • > It often inserts hands into the frame. Looks like too much Italian training data
      ardrak on HN
    • I tried with the drake and drake saying some stuff and while its cool, its still lacking, like his teeth are disappearing partially :S
      cchance on HN
  • Actor list is cringe and low-brow

    From 1 comment
    • The actor list you have is so... cringe. I don't know what it is about AI startups that they seem to be pulled towards this kind of low brow overly online set of personalities. I…
      ianbicking on HN

Requests

  • Public API for integration

    From 3 comments
    • I am actively working in this area from a wrapper application perspective. In general, tools that generate video are not sufficient on their own. They are likely to be used as…
      zoogeny on HN
    • It would be amazing to be able to drive this with an API.
      ilaksh on HN
    • Awesome, any plans for an API and, if so, how soon?
      jadbox on HN
  • Real-time performance

    From 2 comments
    • can this achieve real-time performance or how far are we from a real-time model?
      billconan on HN
    • Won't be long before it's real time. The first company to launch video calling with good AI avatars is going to take off.
      modeless on HN
  • Ability to choose own voices

    From 2 comments
    • can we choose our own voices?
      toisanji on HN
    • It's incredibly good - bravo. Only thing missing for this to be immediately useful for content creation, is more variety in voices, or ideally somehow specifying a template sound…
      johnyzee on HN
  • Longer video generation

    From 2 comments
    • I need to create a bunch of 5-7 minute talking head videos. What's your timeline for capabilities that would help with this?
      nickfromseattle on HN
    • Is there any limitation on the video length?
      naveensky on HN

Questions

  • Legality of using copyrighted or real people's images and music

    From 2 comments
    • Does anybody know about the legality of using Eminem's "Gozilla" as promotional material[1] for this service? I thought you had to pay artists for a license before using their…
      WaffleIronMaker on HN
    • Putting Drake as a default avatar is just begging to be sued. Please remove pictures of actual people!
      LarsDu88 on HN
  • Deepfake misuse and provenance of outputs

    From 2 comments
    • Say I’m a politician who gets caught on camera doing or saying something shady. Will your service do anything to prevent me from claiming the incriminating video was just faked…
      jl6 on HN
    • Damn - I took an (AI) image that I "created" a year ago that I liked and then you animated it AND let it sing Amazing Grace. Seeing IS believing this technology pretty much means…
      PerilousD on HN
  • Pricing and open source plans

    From 2 comments
    • This is surprisingly very intelligent and awesome, any plan for research paper or full grown project with pricing or open source?
      AnnaMere on HN
    • Any details yet on pricing or too early?
      DevX101 on HN

Alternatives named

  • Loopy Avatar (ByteDance)

    From 2 comments
    • Yep for sure! EMO is a good one. VASA-1 (Microsoft) and Loopy Avatar (ByteDance) are two others from this year. And thanks!
      lcolucci on HN
    • No, not related. We just took some of Loopy's demo images + audios since they came out 2 days ago and people were aware of them. We want to do an explicit side-by-side at some…
      lcolucci on HN
  • EMO (Alibaba)

    From 1 comment
    • There is prior art here, e.g. Emo from alibaba research (https://humanaigc.github.io/emote-portrait-alive/), but this is impressive and also actually has a demo people can try,…
      advael on HN
  • VASA-1 (Microsoft)

    From 1 comment
    • Yep for sure! EMO is a good one. VASA-1 (Microsoft) and Loopy Avatar (ByteDance) are two others from this year. And thanks!
      lcolucci on HN
  • HeyGen and Synthesia

    From 1 comment

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