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There was a skit just now where they talked about going to a comedy show. Of course the scene cut and they didn't actually go. Except three skits later they talked about "the comedy show we just went to". The singularity is now.

After that Elaine, Kramer, George all talking about a comedy club experience. When they delivered their lines, they each sat on the couch in the exact same spot, models clipping into one another. Then the camera switched to front view of this new comedy chimera and just lingered without a line said.

Everyone was warning about the singularity but none of us considered the horrors of the comedy chimera.

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…

Simfeld: A Show about Nothing in a Game about Nothing:

The Sims 4 looks like the perfect home for Seinfeld and friends

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-sims-4-looks-like-the-perfect-ho...

Jerry Seinfeld's Apartment [No CC] // Speed Build - The Sims 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gu2k_e_4mA

The Sims 4 snuck in a little Seinfeld reference

https://www.reddit.com/r/seinfeld/comments/2r7u5i/the_sims_4...

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…

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] htt…

I saw "Her" on a plane near the end of last year. I had avoided seeing it because I thought it was a movie about AI and expected it to be trite.

For anyone else who might be dismissing it for similar reasons: its not about AI, its about relationships, and it is really good.

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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What social commentary did Seinfeld make? It was a 'show about nothing', starring incredibly self-centered characters who cared about nothing.

No soup for you

Please stop: posting fulminating Nazi threats is against Hacker News guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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post #105

Is this the beginning of the "interdimensional cable TV"? Instead of pulling content from other dimension, we'll be generating it though.

Twitch was kinda already interdimensional cable. A former roomate and I would occasionally dive into the depths of twitch looking for unusual and interesting streams and we called it "watching interdimensional cable". There was some really wildly strange stuff out there. I toyed with building a tool to help find streams with the right je ne sais qua, but I never could quite beat our heuristic of just sorting by fewest viewers and scanning for things that looked like they might be good.

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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I saw the name "Seinfeld" a thousand times here and there on the web. But never looked it up. Now I took a peek for the first time. First video that pops up is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYgFmP03biw So it is something like Al Bundy? A soap opera? If someone makes an Al Bundy version, it certainly should be called "AI Bundy".

It’s a show about nothing. Or rather, it’s a Sitcom where they take mundane things in everyday life and obsess over them comedically. Some people find it doesn’t withstand the test of time and if you never saw it in the 90/00s you might not really care for it.

The act of people who weren't around to watch Seinfeld when it originally aired complaining that it's just so overdone, unfunny, unoriginal, tired, cliched, or just like other shows, is called the "Seinfeld is Unfunny" trope.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...

>"I don't know what the big deal with Hamlet is. It's just one famous saying after another, strung together by a moldy old plot." — Old Joke

>There are certain shows that you can safely assume most people have seen. These shows were considered fantastic when they first aired. Now, however, these shows have a Hype Backlash curse on them. Whenever we watch them, we'll cry, "That is so old" or "That is so overdone".

>The sad irony? It wasn't old or overdone when they did it, because they were the first ones to do it. But the things it created were so brilliant and popular, they became woven into the fabric of that show's genre. They ended up being taken for granted, copied and endlessly repeated. Although they often began by saying something new, they in turn became the new status quo. It's basically the inverse of a Grandfather Clause taken to a trope level: rather than being able to get away with something that is seen as overdone or out of style simply because it was the one that started it, people will unfairly disregard it because it got lost amidst its sea of imitations even though it paved the way for all those imitators. That is, a work retroactively becomes a Cliché Storm.

>There may be good reason for this. Whoever is first to do something isn't likely to be the best at it, simply because everyone that comes after is building on their predecessors' work.

>Named after Seinfeld, which many people won't watch any more because everything about it has been copied. note Most likely will result in Fan Haters and accusations of Rule Abiding Rebels. This can also occur in countries that get the shows years after they originally come out.

>When someone attempts to make "Seinfeld" funny again in this time and age, see Reconstruction.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Reconstruction

Not to be confused with the act of thinking an old in-joke referencing a sub-culture was originally from that show (yada, yada, yada), which is called the "Seinfeld Effect" or the modern internet-meme related "Family Guy Effect".

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/seinfeld-effect

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/family-guy-effect

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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post #89

Just heard something to the effect of "I just heard about this new kind of restaurant where all the food is Chinese. You can order anything you want and it will be Chinese." Amazing

“You know what would be funny? If we all dressed up like chickens on the way to the restaurant.

That would really ruffle some feathers.”

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.

The problem is the medium itself. The internet, as much as it was believed to be a tool for bringing people together, also largely serves to keep our interactions shallow. Anonymity provides malevolent sociopathic sadists to cause significant amounts of harm pseudo anonymously, making the kind of vulnerability required to form meaningful connections much more risky than it is in real life encounters. Stories of people meeting great friends and spouses online are outliers and selection bias.

If you want to meet people, the internet is a terrible way to do it.

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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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…

I did the same. But had it specifically set in 2021 Also set in the restaurant. George gets a job as an "Uber Delivery"* driver and Kramer is excited about VR.

*Is that a thing? I don't think I've seen that where I am

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