> Google and Meta, Facebook’s parent company, unveiled the first video-generation systems last year, but did not share them with the public because they were worried that the systems could eventually be used to spread disinformation with newfound speed and efficiency.<p>> But Runway’s chief executive, Cris Valenzuela, said he believed the technology was too important to keep in a research lab, despite its risks. “This is one of the single most impressive technologies we have built in the last hundred years,” he said. “You need to have people actually using it.”<p>Self-abdication of responsibility at work.<p>Now add proliferation and strengthening of models and AI capabilities to the mix and you'll get hundreds of thousands of actors like this all playing mine sweeper with civilization.<p>Fun times!