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I'm a Screenwriter. These AI Jokes Give Me Nightmares

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Re: I'm a Screenwriter. These AI Jokes Give Me Nightmares

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Post by gizajob »

damnesian wrote: post #2

All of the Onion-y headlines written by code-davinci-002 are terrible. I am not worried.

Yeah I thought exactly the same. At best they were a bad day at the Onion, which itself jumped the shark a good 10-15 years ago. Not sure what the guy is worried about, but maybe his own writing is pretty awful if that's his analysis of da Vinci's output. For the hackneyed drivel that gets on mainstream TV then AI is likely to be good enough, but I don't watch that kind of TV because of its lameness. If have thought an AI could reliably write a Simpsons episode without too much trouble if fed the corpus of the Simpsons, but again, we're not talking about a vital media art form.

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Post by memefrog »

Screenwriters have sat comfortably in their little moat producing increasingly generic, hackneyed and woke rubbish for years. Now they're finding out what happens when you rest on your laurels: you get disrupted. If there were ever an industry in need of creative disruption, it is screenwriting.

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Post by TetraBeef »

He's selling a book demonstrating how great and scary AI is for 17 dollars and his friend from OpenAI was really keen to show off the fantastic new AI model his company has lined up.

Great thinly veiled ad for OpenAI and this guy's book. A book which appears to be nothing more than a bunch of AI generated poems. He even says that they could have just been posted online but that they're selling through a publisher for "credibility".

Another alarmist poised to profit from the alarm. Not saying all of them are mind, just this one seems that way.

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Post by gorjusborg »

Centigonal wrote: post #8
over_bridge wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I pray that society can move past the desire to protect jobs and embrace the ability to kill them. Imagine checking the news and hearing that through AI and automation, we'd eliminated another 3% of unwanted jobs and those people were free to enjoy other pursuits. The growing jobless rate would be a cause for celebration. People who automate industries would be heroes instead of being cursed by the poor who are now o…

> Imagine checking the news and hearing that through AI and automation, we'd eliminated another 3% of unwanted jobs and those people were free to enjoy other pursuits. We don't have any social safety net, so today those 3% can't enjoy other pursuits - they have to scrounge around for a new job. Even if we did, The primary path to security, freedom, and prestige in our society is through industry. We have to change th…

> We don't have any social safety net, so today those 3% can't enjoy other pursuits

Exactly. Its not that anyone wants a job, it is that the rules of the society they live in require it.

Heck, I can't even go to the doctor without having a job that provides health 'insurance'.

I'd be for letting AI have my job and doing what I want. I doubt the billionaire who runs the AI will see that it happens that way though.

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