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Truman World

34 points trollied 2 days ago 29 comments

stevage 16 hours ago | parent

How does this work? I couldn't find an about page?

avaer 15 hours ago | parent

The models used are mentioned on the page; primarily it's H3 Max Director, Jev, and an agent to manage context and send updates to Director.

stevage 14 hours ago | parent

Yes, I don't want to know what the tools are. What...is it? What's the goal? How is one meant to interact with it?

avaer 14 hours ago | parent

It's not on the page, but the creator (@WillTheRapper_) said on Twitter:

> This is our first experiment in building a persistent Social World Engine — a world that continues to exist, evolve, and remember even when nobody is watching.

The audience is meant to direct the show. There's a crypto token involved in paying for it. Make of that what you will.

Personally I think it's an invitation to a lawsuit. Back in the day people were running AI Spongebob on Twitch and that got killed for copyright infringement. And this isn't a cartoon, it's Jim Carrey.

yreg 10 hours ago | parent

> There's a crypto token involved in paying for it.

It seems that the viewers pay with USDC, no? There's nothing inherently sketchy about that.

altmanaltman 14 hours ago | parent

It is vibecoded slop, not sure why people are taking this seriously here

margalabargala 13 hours ago | parent

Some people are looking at what it is, rather than how it was made.

vunderba 13 hours ago | parent

As avaer already mentioned it seems to be a thin wrapper around H3 Max Director, which generates real-time video and takes “natural language directions” that are then relatively seamlessly incorporated into the continuous video stream.

It's like a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure dialed up to 11.

I played around with it briefly on Fal.ai generating a cartoon, but it’s more of a technical curiosity for the time being since I don’t have a Scrooge McDuck vault of gold coins.

aogaili 15 hours ago | parent

This is really an interesting experiment.

jader201 15 hours ago | parent

Hugged :(

the_sleaze_ 15 hours ago | parent

Truman looked down the street where an explosion occurred, then a shadowy figure came out of the smoke, approached down the road, ran into truman and then past him and accosted an indian man in a turban. They threw blows until an identical clone of the indian in a turban tackled the shadowy man to the rear of the frame. The first Indian man was handed a white monster energy drink. He took a sip. He immediately tranformed into Truman with glowing blue eyes. Truman was visibly confused and started saying garbled words like "what did you givrm." "I can feel the mermegh"

Then hugged to death.

userbinator 15 hours ago | parent

"Now I am become HN, the Destroyer of Websites."

avaer 15 hours ago | parent

The star of the show is H3 Max Director [1], which lets you get a pseudo realtime WebRTC video feed which you can control with JSON messages.

The model is quite impressive, though obviously it depends a lot on what you're doing. But you can literally just type whatever you want and it will reasonably happen a few seconds later. Logical continuity is not included; attempting to maintain continuity is probably the bulk of the work for this experiment.

If you want to try your own version, you can vibe code an interface on top of the fal API in a few minutes, it is coding agent friendly.

Keep in mind it's super expensive; per list pricing (at least on fal), it costs $5/min to run, and the minimum is 1 minute.

[1] https://fal.ai/models/minimax/h3-max/director

treetalker 15 hours ago | parent

the upvoting will continue until bandwidth improves

esseph 15 hours ago | parent

Error proxying request to container: There are more than 4096 concurrent connections inbound to the container, surpassing the limit

TZubiri 15 hours ago | parent

Do you

A) remove container, use raw process

B) 4096 concurrent connections is plenty, start dropping them and filtering more aggressively

C) Slap that cloudflare thingy and call it a day (same error rate, but users get told they are robots so it's their fault)

D) Just restart the server, the problem is no longer there, anyways

avaer 13 hours ago | parent

Dunno how this page is implemented, but the only thing that can't be trivially infinitely scaled is the streaming; the correct solution is probably to farm that out to a service. LiveKit or something fatter. 4096 connections is not necessarily enough for a livestream of anything.

dwroberts 12 hours ago | parent

The correct answer is E, you run more containers

gregjw 14 hours ago | parent

what is this garbage

downrightmike 14 hours ago | parent

Trying to get money to play

Ajakks 14 hours ago | parent

This is really something. Well done. This is the future, albeit a bit rudimentary, but you just made me realize a few things.

In 10 years, the world will be very different, in 20 - unrecognizable.

superxpro12 48 minutes ago | parent

what is reality except what we perceive of it?

downrightmike 14 hours ago | parent

What even is this? Everyone for $5?

dvh 13 hours ago | parent

If you opened page and haven't seen video, the page malfunctioned, try reloading it.

On the page there is streamed real time video that is generated by ai. The setting is similar to the movie Truman show with Jim Carrey where he was main character whose life was streamed 24/7. With the limitations of current technology, it is inconsistent slop, the consistency is at most 5-10s, they probably just generate first and last frame of a 10s "scene" and make 2 videos and then stich them together. There is some monetization scheme where users can steer what's happening on screen by paid prompts.

totallymike 14 hours ago | parent

Couldn’t even tell what was happening here, and the moment the page loaded it made a bunch of loud noise at me so I closed it immediately. Comments indicate it’s slop anyway.

God damn I wish titles would tell you even a little about what a page is

rvz 13 hours ago | parent

Carelessly vibe coded and crashed under light load from a HN hug of death. The lowest bar in reliability.

Complete slop this is.

SpikeyCoder 13 hours ago | parent

Looks jenky and cannot handle the traffic. Neat idea having a public-facing AI-agent observability panel wrapped around participatory improv fiction

vavooom 48 minutes ago | parent

Truman did a kick flip!

drayfield 7 minutes ago | parent

What a horrible thing this is.