{"id":3631,"date":"2025-07-13T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/video-generating-public-commons\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T10:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T10:00:38","slug":"video-generating-public-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/video-generating-public-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"New Video-Generating AI Trained 100 Percent on Public Domain Films"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Few tech products have been as broadly contentious as video-generating artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

These complex algorithms, which cleave millions of datapoints together into seconds-long gobs of video, are notoriously trained on proprietary material, leading to widespread ethical<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and legal<\/a> concerns. (That’s before we even mention how much energy it takes<\/a> to synthesize an AI video.)<\/p>\n

Tech billionaires tend to argue that this is simply the way things need to be<\/a> \u2014 if you want AI, we need to feed it copyrighted books, music, and video.<\/p>\n

However, one group of AI researchers is working to prove that argument wrong.<\/p>\n

Moonvalley is a Los Angeles-based AI startup offering a “3D-aware” video synthesis model which it claims is 100 percent trained on public domain films.<\/p>\n

The startup’s flagship product, Marey, debuted in a limited run back in March. It’s now out and open to the public, TechCrunch<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>, <\/strong>making use of a credit-based system, which is typical of most AI video software.<\/p>\n

The company is drawing the attention of big names in the film world, like Ed Ulbrich, a VFX artist and producer who worked on movies like “Titanic,” “Benjamin Button,” and “Top Gun: Maverick.” Moonvalley hired Ulbrich<\/a> to liaison with film studios back in June, a role he was drawn to by the company’s “clean model,” as he calls it.<\/p>\n

Ulbrich was previously down on generative AI, but says Moonvalley’s approach helped change his mind.<\/p>\n

“I do think a key thing for me which was the game-changer and why I was just compelled is that at its core the idea of [Moonvalley\u2019s] clean model of an ethically sourced, ethically trained, a legit, proper thing,” Ulbrich told\u00a0Deadline <\/em><\/a>in an interview. “No stolen pixels, no scraping of the internet. It\u2019s done in a great way. And it is so important that it happened.”<\/p>\n

Similar projects have been launched in other mediums. In June, a team of over two dozen AI researchers<\/a> trained a large language model (LLM) on openly licensed or public domain data, proving that it doesn’t take millions of stolen books<\/a> to build an AI chatbot.<\/p>\n

It was admittedly a ton of work, with the team combing through over eight terabytes of data \u2014 roughly equal<\/a> to about 1,685,461 Bibles \u2014 once to format everything, and then again to double-check the copyright status of all the material.<\/p>\n

The result was an LLM that more or less stacked up to Meta’s Llama 1 and 2 7B, which are admittedly a few years old at this point, but impressive nonetheless.<\/p>\n

While it remains to be seen if Moonvalley’s data truly was publicly licensed, as they claim, it could offer a strong rebuttal to big tech’s narrative<\/a> of data shortages and necessary plunder.<\/p>\n

More on generative AI: <\/strong>“Indie Rock Band” That’s Clearly Using AI Claims That “We Never Use AI”<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The post New Video-Generating AI Trained 100 Percent on Public Domain Films<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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