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The future is something like the TikTok algorithm, but generated on the fly. As you scroll, it learns what you like and generates more videos.
Will it learn that I don’t like ads?
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Literally nobody will give a fuck about a 24 episode series that exists because you spent a few seconds writing a prompt. AI doesn’t increase the value of content, it makes it meaningless by destroying scarcity. Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
Like the hot take but it is needlessly negative because it doesn’t go far enough. You could make the same argument about musical instruments, or being able to record and playback music, dj tools, etc. I think what you get is the power law distribution for tons of content. Some of the stuff is still mega valuable, but distribution just gets more and more important and it’s harder and harder to break through. This is w…
The latter would mean everything quickly looks and feels the same.
I also believe some barrier to entry is needed for good art, people are inherently lazy and AI lets us get away with "just good enough" - see llm assisted coding as an example
As a Chinese,I am proud of ByteDance. It make the China's AI industry at the top of the world. Although we have been banned by USA
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Like the hot take but it is needlessly negative because it doesn’t go far enough. You could make the same argument about musical instruments, or being able to record and playback music, dj tools, etc. I think what you get is the power law distribution for tons of content. Some of the stuff is still mega valuable, but distribution just gets more and more important and it’s harder and harder to break through. This is w…
The difference is that the jury is still out if these things are truly generating something novel. Or are we just making it pick from the spaces in between an average of all the images on the internet. The latter would mean everything quickly looks and feels the same. I also believe some barrier to entry is needed for good art, people are inherently lazy and AI lets us get away with "just good enough" - see llm assis…
Novel in what sense? Most creative endeavor is not completely novel -- it's usually a combination of pre-existing styles, taste, patterns, and other inputs.
> The latter would mean everything quickly looks and feels the same.
I think human preferences will be a good guard rail against this. The reward will be greatly reduced for creating mostly the same things, just like real artists in real life.
> I also believe some barrier to entry is needed for good art, people are inherently lazy and AI lets us get away with "just good enough" - see llm assisted coding as an example
That's a pretty deep philosophical question -- "good art" is also a hell of a rabbit hole to go down!
Guess we'll find out :)
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The thing is that people don’t know or won’t say what they like. The TikTok algorithm is good at figuring out what you do. Not what you say. So the content will be a lot more engaging.
"If I had asked people what they want, they would have said 'faster horses'" - Henry Ford
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Who is going to spend time watching those episodes if content is so easy to make? Everyone will be busy watching their own generated content.
Because few are great storytellers, people like celebrities, and having a shared cultural reference point. Even TikTok's main fuel are likes and shares. Isolated material will just cease to be interesting, because it's from your own imagination.
It’s reaching, of course, but imo the best shows are those that have small, dedicated, fanbase. If it’s small it means that the show has enough personality to drive other people away.
And that’s fine. Popular stuff is popular mainly because of lack of controverse.
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A whole series would involve writing thousands of prompts, not just a few seconds. But since you bring it up, one thing I think we can eventually expect is an avalanche of fan created continuations of cancelled shows, like an 8th season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, or a decent 8th season of Game of Thrones. Instead of writing a tie-in novel, aspiring genre authors will write screenplays and turn them into AI mo…
Which is the worse thing that cn happen to these shows. Most of them are already going downhill plotwise after a couple of seasons.
Firefly is the exception. Luckily they managed to wrap it up in Serenity.