Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45630753

Points: 4

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I downloaded it. It’s a PDF of a circuit where instead of a 9v battery, there’s 2 nails and a banana.

Then he demos the sound in the video. A sound that could not possibly be produced by the circuit in the PDF or any reasonable variation of the circuit.

This is all presented without any tongue in cheek. It’s presented in the video, the website and PDF as being 100% real.

Yet, it’s objectively and indisputably fiction.

To go through all the trouble of setting this channel up and fabricating all the devices and the website with schematics and recording and editing the videos at a very high level seems extremely unlikely.

That’s a lot of work for very, very little or no gain. Unless I’m missing the big scam and there is a bunch of money to be made, but I don’t see it.

However, if this was AI slop. That’s 100% reasonable. Who cares, just write a prompt and out comes the video.

“Create a video of a new pedal that uses a banana for electricity.”

The whole thing has the feel of long AI hallucination for a vague prompt. It fits really well.

Except, I haven’t heard of any service that could generate a video with that level of quality and duration.

I totally expect that to be available sometime in the relatively near future. But from my understanding, currently available AI models can’t possibly be responsible for high quality videos of that length.

And given these videos have been showing up for many months makes the whole thing that much more strange.

It seems incredibly improbable that a person would put so much energy into creating high quality videos of nonsense for no purpose. Not impossible, but it just doesn’t add up.

It seems completely possible that, in 3 or 4 years time, publicly available AI services will be able to produce videos of this quality and duration.

I can’t think of any reasonable explanation for why these videos exist or for how they were made.

The production quality of the videos is very high. Much higher than most click bait. Great lighting, great camera, great editing.

The subject matter is pretty esoteric though. So why go through the trouble?

I’ve seen some of those perpetual motion videos and they’re low effort, low quality.

This one is high effort, high quality. But on an esoteric subject. Also, he’s selling schematics for circuits that are completely imaginary.

I think anyone with a basic understanding of electronics would see the absurdity of these circuits and wouldn’t buy the schematics.

Plus, this guy spent all the time and effort fabricating these pedals with nonsensical circuits, to show them off with fake demonstrations to DIYers who absolutely would know in a second the whole thing is a farce?

The content is pure fiction.

Very low effort scam, esoteric subject not very useful for clickbait, the videos are trying to sell fictional things for low dollar amounts to people who will immediately know these are fictional.

But the quality is really high. If it’s real, it was clearly created by one or more highly competent people.

Why would highly competent people write a script, fabricate fake devices, light, film and edit videos with almost no chance to actually make money.

The quality seems way too good for existing AI video generators.

Yet, if it’s real, that’s an awful lot of time and money invested to produce a fake video.

If it’s a scam, like to sell fake schematics for fake circuits for $5 a pop, it’s a really high quality scam for almost super low likelihood of a payout.

Anyone heard of this channel before? If this is AI generated, it’s exceptional.

Why do these videos exist?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628847

Points: 1

# Comments: 6

This bubble seems different though, as AI seems to be poised to augment capabilities of existing companies vs generating another Google or Tesla.

Where to invest then? Will AI just make bigger companies bigger or are there clear opportunities for startups or smaller companies to rapidly grow?

Any unicorns or will all the benefits be realized at FAANG level companies?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35313564

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

I like the lack of instructions, it makes it fun to explore the rules. In fact, unique rules per game might be interesting to discover.

The UI is perfect, keep it simple and focused on play. Though, I agree with other comments that the final flashing lights should be slower.

A move count and leader board for time to complete and fewest moves to complete would make this social-ish.

Maybe hints for harder puzzles?

I could see this going a long way, so many variations to explore!

Would be strange to have a conscious being that could be rewound and replayed exactly given identical inputs.