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Veo fails week 4: the final faildown (www.youtube.com)
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‘an expensive slot machine that outputs slop 98% of the time’

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A random thought occurred to me that Veo is probably “better” at being prompted with something like “the scene from X movie but with Y instead of Z” as it is a plagiarism engine first and foremost. I will never investigate this hypothesis, nor will I hold onto it past typing it here.