I am still waiting for someone to conclusively demonstrate that AI can much more easily replace the execs making decisions as to what gets greenlit than it can replace the creative people. Because I firmly believe that's true.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. If you treat your workers well they won’t want a union and I say this as a two time Union member one of which was SAG and the other the flight attendants union. They things they had to fight for in the latter world blow your mind.
I hope that writers truly did get what they want and continue to stand with SAG.
It's not about who wants to watch it, its about profit.
Get rid of writers by AI. Use actors faces that you've bought for a one time price. Use CGI to animate it (because you know they love to stiff those guys but hopefully more join with IATSE). No need to build a set/makeup/costumes/scout locations as its all green screen/rendered.
They want the 1% profit they pay all the 6 unions to make the blockbusters. They're placing a bet that in the future it'll be doable. It wont be 3 years but they're looking at it like streaming.
Netflix movie buffs. On the bright side it looks like we've seen last of movies about the woes of kids learning how to be wizards in wizard schools. Does Wednesday count? Sorry. Yeah. It does.
I for one would be more than happy to turn my job over to the robots, and let me take over assembling cars and mowing lawns and saying “Danger Will Robinson! Danger!!”
I"m an admin at a website (trivia games) where most of our content is user submitted. We experimented with AI and found that while the quality of the prose was about as good as our mediocre authors and better than our poor ones (because at least the grammar and spelling was OK), the factual content was totally unreliable. It was just making shit up.
There’s a reason selling the fiction of “right to work” has been a tentpole of right wing ideology ever since conservatives took over the Republican Party.
"Hopefully they got what they wanted out of that, least of all because who the hell wants to watch a movie written by a robot?"
But what if the AI-written movies are better than human-written ones?
I saw meme a while back that really resonated with me because I am (apparently) one of the few people who care only about the quality of the work product and not about who or what did the work:
"Look, you can just say 'it's important to me that a human person made this thing.' all this hogwash about how AI art is ugly... you care about people and that people make art. It's important to you. You've just never had to face that because it's always been a given until now."
Who are the writers from which the AI is generating content? AI doesn't live in a vacuum. People who put out product that is absorbed into some sort of AI algorithm deserve ... something?
And AI isn't able to understand (yet) whether a plot will generate a giggle, a sob, or a gasp.
I can't wait for the AI-generated show that mines the internet where it's white-supremacist and all women, non-whites, and non-heterosexual people are turned into ... trolls? Servants? Because one of things that writers were asking for is ownership over their domain. AI cannot reasonably write POC stories because there haven't been enough out there for AI to mine. Same for other underrepresented groups.
I am still waiting for someone to conclusively demonstrate that AI can much more easily replace the execs making decisions as to what gets greenlit than it can replace the creative people. Because I firmly believe that's true.
Probably, but it needs to avoid the paperclip problem first.
Excellent! Fingers crossed now for a sweet deal for SAG.
Thank gawdess.
Nice Times! A good way to start a Monday!
Good. Now can HBO un-cancel Winning Time please?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. If you treat your workers well they won’t want a union and I say this as a two time Union member one of which was SAG and the other the flight attendants union. They things they had to fight for in the latter world blow your mind.
I hope that writers truly did get what they want and continue to stand with SAG.
who the hell wants to watch a movie written by a robot?
Fast and Furious fans?
It's not about who wants to watch it, its about profit.
Get rid of writers by AI. Use actors faces that you've bought for a one time price. Use CGI to animate it (because you know they love to stiff those guys but hopefully more join with IATSE). No need to build a set/makeup/costumes/scout locations as its all green screen/rendered.
They want the 1% profit they pay all the 6 unions to make the blockbusters. They're placing a bet that in the future it'll be doable. It wont be 3 years but they're looking at it like streaming.
Netflix movie buffs. On the bright side it looks like we've seen last of movies about the woes of kids learning how to be wizards in wizard schools. Does Wednesday count? Sorry. Yeah. It does.
Wednesday at least has some social commentary in the story and side-plots.
I for one would be more than happy to turn my job over to the robots, and let me take over assembling cars and mowing lawns and saying “Danger Will Robinson! Danger!!”
I"m an admin at a website (trivia games) where most of our content is user submitted. We experimented with AI and found that while the quality of the prose was about as good as our mediocre authors and better than our poor ones (because at least the grammar and spelling was OK), the factual content was totally unreliable. It was just making shit up.
AI does not have any concept of true or false.
"who the hell wants to watch a movie written by a robot?"
A movie written by current level AI would be amazing to watch. A beautiful disaster of the truly bizarre.
More than one? No thanks.
For your delectation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgPvoPBrlTE
writers shouldn’t be the only ones concerned w/ AI … i saw ‘’Looker’’ many years ago where the concept of deep fakes was explored …
There’s a reason selling the fiction of “right to work” has been a tentpole of right wing ideology ever since conservatives took over the Republican Party.
Strikes work
And they know it.
"who the hell wants to watch a movie written by a robot?"
You just wait till I get my pornbot movie studio set up, meatbag! You'll see.
-Bender
"who the hell wants to watch a movie written by a robot?"
Other robots?
Cylons.
That almost explains the typical movie-watching public.
Maybe if we can distract all the bots with bot flicks, they’ll stop spreading nonsense on the internet!
"Hopefully they got what they wanted out of that, least of all because who the hell wants to watch a movie written by a robot?"
But what if the AI-written movies are better than human-written ones?
I saw meme a while back that really resonated with me because I am (apparently) one of the few people who care only about the quality of the work product and not about who or what did the work:
"Look, you can just say 'it's important to me that a human person made this thing.' all this hogwash about how AI art is ugly... you care about people and that people make art. It's important to you. You've just never had to face that because it's always been a given until now."
Who are the writers from which the AI is generating content? AI doesn't live in a vacuum. People who put out product that is absorbed into some sort of AI algorithm deserve ... something?
And AI isn't able to understand (yet) whether a plot will generate a giggle, a sob, or a gasp.
I can't wait for the AI-generated show that mines the internet where it's white-supremacist and all women, non-whites, and non-heterosexual people are turned into ... trolls? Servants? Because one of things that writers were asking for is ownership over their domain. AI cannot reasonably write POC stories because there haven't been enough out there for AI to mine. Same for other underrepresented groups.
This. Check out "AI Weirdness" she's been looking at this sort of thing for a while now. https://www.aiweirdness.com/
I should live so long that AI can write a script that is more than a self parody.
It’s not AI. There is no intelligence involved. It is spicy autocomplete.
"Spicy Autocomplete" I am SO stealing that!
"...who the hell wants to watch a movie written by a robot?"
Bender Bending Rodriguez, for one.
Only if it has blackjack and hookers.
Prosti-bots