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Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

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Re: Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

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What I am curious to learn is how many episodes of a TV series made by real actors it will take for an "AI" to eventually make perfect extensions

ie. feed it every episode of the original Star Trek series, at some point "AI" is going to be advanced enough to write a new episode and simulate all the characters perfectly

anime and animation in theory will be even easier to do perfectly?

the question is can it do it perfectly with just a dozen episodes? or does three dozen make it better?

because once that happens, that's all the networks will pay for, after all they are only about the commercials they can insert into content regardless of source

and yes viewers will eventually accept it the same way they won't quit X or meta, etc. regardless of how horrible they become or the sub-human behavior of the owners

Re: Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

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Southern California Edison utility district famously required their office staff to train offshored support staff, and then did replace those office staff with the newly trained offshore workers

Southern California Edison IT workers ‘beyond furious’ over H-1B replacements - Computerworld 2015 -- The incident sparked legislative interest in California, with lawmakers proposing bills to restrict utilities from outsourcing critical infrastructure work and prompting at least 11 U.S. senators to request federal investigations into the use of H-1B visas in such outsourcing deals.

Re: Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

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post #2

What I am curious to learn is how many episodes of a TV series made by real actors it will take for an "AI" to eventually make perfect extensions ie. feed it every episode of the original Star Trek series, at some point "AI" is going to be advanced enough to write a new episode and simulate all the characters perfectly anime and animation in theory will be even easier to do perfectly? the question is can it do it per…

Why wouldn't the users just generate it themselves?

Re: Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

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post #2

What I am curious to learn is how many episodes of a TV series made by real actors it will take for an "AI" to eventually make perfect extensions ie. feed it every episode of the original Star Trek series, at some point "AI" is going to be advanced enough to write a new episode and simulate all the characters perfectly anime and animation in theory will be even easier to do perfectly? the question is can it do it per…

I don't think it will ever be able to make perfect extensions, because there is no perfect extension. Part of creative work is human imperfections. Part of me being invested in a series is because I know it will end at some point.

If there's infinite star trek episodes, I don't care to watch it. I'd rather spin a fidget spinner instead.

Re: Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

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What I am curious to learn is how many episodes of a TV series made by real actors it will take for an "AI" to eventually make perfect extensions ie. feed it every episode of the original Star Trek series, at some point "AI" is going to be advanced enough to write a new episode and simulate all the characters perfectly anime and animation in theory will be even easier to do perfectly? the question is can it do it per…

Why wouldn't the users just generate it themselves?

This is exactly how I see it. Most companies participating in such games are digging their own grave long term, because of fear of someone else doing that

Re: Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

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What I am curious to learn is how many episodes of a TV series made by real actors it will take for an "AI" to eventually make perfect extensions ie. feed it every episode of the original Star Trek series, at some point "AI" is going to be advanced enough to write a new episode and simulate all the characters perfectly anime and animation in theory will be even easier to do perfectly? the question is can it do it per…

I don't think it will ever be able to make perfect extensions, because there is no perfect extension. Part of creative work is human imperfections. Part of me being invested in a series is because I know it will end at some point. If there's infinite star trek episodes, I don't care to watch it. I'd rather spin a fidget spinner instead.

you are reacting as if the content is going to be robotic

except "AI" doesn't have any original thoughts of its own, everything is going to be originally from a human source

it might be a concept from some rare book they fed it and destroyed after, it might be a concept from thousands of "fan fic" they hoovered up all over the internet by scraping forums illegally

you say you won't watch it except human behavior already demonstrates there are millions of other people who will

it's an unfortunate future but an easily predictable one

all about making cheap content to insert ads, the ads are the point, not the content

like product placement in a $100 million action movie, except soon they will be able to make the movie for $100 instead of $100 million and most won't know the difference

Re: Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

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What I am curious to learn is how many episodes of a TV series made by real actors it will take for an "AI" to eventually make perfect extensions ie. feed it every episode of the original Star Trek series, at some point "AI" is going to be advanced enough to write a new episode and simulate all the characters perfectly anime and animation in theory will be even easier to do perfectly? the question is can it do it per…

Why wouldn't the users just generate it themselves?

on their own computer using open weight chinese models?

More seriously

1) >users will generate their own

some people write fanfic, most just watch/read instead.

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Without_a_Crew explains how film maker will film, with whatever they have. AI will enable some people to make what is not financially feasible right now for a single person to do.

'Unique' movie/stories creation will continue.

And like with the rest of things AI can do, the question is more 'who's going to pay for person-made vs "algorithmically optimized AI generated story'.

Same question we have of 'AI generated code' vs 'this code was written by a person'.

Re: Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

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Southern California Edison utility district famously required their office staff to train offshored support staff, and then did replace those office staff with the newly trained offshore workers Southern California Edison IT workers ‘beyond furious’ over H-1B replacements - Computerworld 2015 -- The incident sparked legislative interest in California, with lawmakers proposing bills to restrict utilities from outsourc…

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