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Thursday, 29th September 2022

Release datasette-publish-fly 1.2 — Datasette plugin for publishing data using Fly

Exploring 10m scraped Shutterstock videos used to train Meta’s Make-A-Video text-to-video model

Visit Exploring 10m scraped Shutterstock videos used to train Meta's Make-A-Video text-to-video model

Make-A-Video is a new “state-of-the-art AI system that generates videos from text” from Meta AI. It looks incredible—it really is DALL-E / Stable Diffusion for video. And it appears to have been trained on 10m video preview clips scraped from Shutterstock.

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TIL HTML video that loads when the user clicks play — Today I figured out how to use the `<video>` tag to show a static thumbnail that gets replaced by the loaded video only when the user clicks play.
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