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post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The original Seinfeld or this? I really feel this comment could go both ways, tbh.

The original show was about how a comedian finds their jokes. Jerry said as much in a Reddit AMA.

Reference: https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ujvrg/jerry_seinfeld...

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

#102

Nice, in the current scene they are planning to make a show. That's great, although I'm not sure why they didn't try to use same angle shots as in the sitcom.

Jerry said "what's the deal with airline peanuts?"[0] and the chat went wild.

(also can't believe they renamed Jerry as Larry and not George)

[0] https://clips.twitch.tv/PoisedTangibleAdminKippa-t2tZJCejx10...

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

#104

Great. Now I’m going to be haunted by a recurring dystopian vision of the future in which all content (even broadcast TV) is pumped out this way to maximise profits. Humans won’t use their brains for creativity anymore. Instead, new ideas will be seeded deep inside a neural network somewhere, and our reactions will be monitored and used as one constant feedback loop. Until we are ultimately just sat drooling and gigg…

Hello, Neo.

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

#106
post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps, but it really seems like a show about nothing.

The original Seinfeld or this? I really feel this comment could go both ways, tbh.

This is a reference to Seinfeld. When Jerry and George pitch their show to NBC, they pitch it is a "show about nothing". Which is almost like an recursion, because the show they pitch in Seinfeld is Seinfeld. So, Seinfeld is a show about nothing.

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#107

Great. Now I’m going to be haunted by a recurring dystopian vision of the future in which all content (even broadcast TV) is pumped out this way to maximise profits. Humans won’t use their brains for creativity anymore. Instead, new ideas will be seeded deep inside a neural network somewhere, and our reactions will be monitored and used as one constant feedback loop. Until we are ultimately just sat drooling and gigg…

The movie "Her"[1] is already here with AI Chatbots. I was recently fooling around with open source 6B parameter AI chatbots. The model is 20GB. That's just for text and that's more text than I could read in my entire life. I could talk to the chatbot for my entire life and never get to the end of it. The amount of raw information that humans can I/O into their brains is very small compared to these chatbots.

[1]https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

#108
post #72

Writing the script for a Seinfeld scene was one of the first use cases I tried on chatgpt last year. I kept a copy. There is some sort of intersection between A Show About Nothing and an AI that creates empty responses from everything. INT. MONK'S CAFE - DAY Jerry, George, and Elaine are sitting at a table. Kramer enters and sits down. Kramer: Hey, guys. Jerry: Hey, what's up, Kramer? Kramer: I've been having some tr…

The rest of the episode continues with Kramer getting a wild streaming setup, Elaine setting up Teams for Peterman and George quite quitting by mounting a picture in front of his webcam

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

#109

Great. Now I’m going to be haunted by a recurring dystopian vision of the future in which all content (even broadcast TV) is pumped out this way to maximise profits. Humans won’t use their brains for creativity anymore. Instead, new ideas will be seeded deep inside a neural network somewhere, and our reactions will be monitored and used as one constant feedback loop. Until we are ultimately just sat drooling and gigg…

here's what i think: imagine if this was good, like it generated stuff that felt like a real episode, like you couldn't tell the difference. how uninteresting. the little bit of entertainment value this has is in being so stupid. the entertainment value of an episode of _seinfeld_ is inseparable from the fact it was written by a human.
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