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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2024 Decembernotthatofftopic

About whether in-person talks stay trustworthy as video generators like Veo 2 improve.

Until the AI can master the art of creating "footage of someone's phone if they were in the crowd of the speech in this other video", then we can't even trust that.

AI convincingly generates a crowd member's phone footage of a speech shown in another video.

Has this happened?

Yes 49 (43%)Not sure 44 (38%)No 22 (19%)

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