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Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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This is probably the first time I've encountered something where "It's so bad that it's good" makes sense to me. I could not stop laughing. The exterior shot with the Seinfeld-inspired music. The laugh track at inappropriate times. They talk about going to a sushi restaurant, and when they've finally agreed to go, they sit down and don't go anywhere. This is like the alien scientists who want to bring back humans aft…

> "It's so bad that it's good" must be that I am not native English speaker and I've never watched Seinfeld, except for some popular clip over the decades, but this is honestly so bad that is really bad. It's Sierra adventures bad jokes bad.

I’m a huge Seinfeld fan and I find this incredibly dull

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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I thought they were bots?

The chat is other Twitch users. Which at this point in time should still be mostly humans.

On streams with high view counts I firmly believe they've never been majority human. They're not even AI, just dumb bots that spam whatever the other bots are spamming

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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post #23

This is probably the first time I've encountered something where "It's so bad that it's good" makes sense to me. I could not stop laughing. The exterior shot with the Seinfeld-inspired music. The laugh track at inappropriate times. They talk about going to a sushi restaurant, and when they've finally agreed to go, they sit down and don't go anywhere. This is like the alien scientists who want to bring back humans aft…

The crappiness is unexplainably funny. Jerry speaking the cues in the comedy bits and saying "pause for applause", Elaine clipping through Jerry, George talking to the fridge. I lost it when it cut to an indoor shot with nobody in it for 2 minutes and then cut away.

The crappiness coupled with the chat makes for a surprisingly hilarious watch.

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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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…

Max Headroom explored this idea too...

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

#157

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…

Max Headroom explored this idea too...

tiktok is literally zikzak corp with blipverts

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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post #50

I am guessing it wouldn’t be hard for an AI voice generator to impersonate the actor’s voices given the possible sample data available. I’m sure it’s not long before we have completely new AI generated deep faked episodes of beloved TV shows.

faking a real voice could be construed as fraud unless they have prior permission from the actor. Their likeness cannot just be copied and used. At the very least, trademark infringement?

Then why are impersonators legal?

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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post #92

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It's kind of absurd to imagine a world full of people, connected to the internet, who watch generated content to not feel alone. If only they could reach one another. What does it take to create a clearing house for lonely people to find suitable matches? HN is looking [1] for an engineer for their co-founder match maker. Maybe they can just scale it up for everybody to find friends? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/…

Meeting real people involves risk. Risk of social awkwardness, boredom, getting hurt, drama, messiness. It's a lot of effort. There are already a thousand ways for people to meet others on the internet, but people choose to passively consume media instead.

Love always means signing up for future suffering due to our mortality.
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