Shock: DPReview.com to close!

This is an incredible sad news:

Dear readers,

After nearly 25 years of operation, DPReview will be closing in the near future. This difficult decision is part of the annual operating plan review that our parent company shared earlier this year.

The site will remain active until April 10, and the editorial team is still working on reviews and looking forward to delivering some of our best-ever content.

Everyone on our staff was a reader and fan of DPReview before working here, and we’re grateful for the communities that formed around the site.

Thank you for your support over the years, and we hope you’ll join us in the coming weeks as we celebrate this journey.

Sincerely,

Scott Everett
General Manager – DPReview.com

Here are my thoughts:

This is a world’s first: Text to Video AI tool created this burning Sony camera video

For the very first time YOU can now use this tool on HuggingFace to generate Videos from a Text prompt. This is a world’s first step into something that in one year from now will work and look much better than it is right now!

That AI tool uses stock images to create videos which is literally a “stealing” of creators content. But the goal of this post is not to talk about the ethical issues, but just to show what the Ai world is trying to do at the moment. One year ago Midjourney images looked like “shit” and today with the release of Midjourney 5 the images look like real photos. The same will happen with video.

This is a problematic, worrisome but I also think inevitable future. We may in future integrate AI generated video in our real workflow.