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Ovi: Twin backbone cross-modal fusion for audio-video generation

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282 points montyanderson | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 19:42 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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meonkeys ◴[22 Oct 25 20:31 UTC] No.45674769[source]▶
Lazyweb: Are these related? If so, how?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45603435

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45652726

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pavlov ◴[22 Oct 25 20:38 UTC] No.45674849[source]▶
When a new open weights AI model comes out, opportunists register a domain using its name and start hosting it hoping to make a buck with SEO.

Easier than ever now, as AI-assisted coding tools will build you that generic landing page and basic UI.

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1. imiric ◴[22 Oct 25 22:13 UTC] No.45675829[source]▶
If they're actually hosting it and providing a service, that wouldn't be a bad thing. Ovi's Apache license allows commercial use. They would only be infringing on the license by not publishing it and the original copyright, and would be morally bankrupt by not disclosing the original project and passing it off as their own.

But I also suspect that most of these are indeed SEO scammers, that there's no actual service, and that all payments are pocketed. It might take a few days for the scam to be reported and the site taken down, but it's likely enough to get a few hundred bucks out of it. They'll never be pursued because of where they live, and they can have many of these up in no time, thanks to AI, as you say.

What a sad state of affairs that no "AI" company or government is taking seriously.