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Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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Post by wolverine876 »

chongli wrote: post #84
wolverine876 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Seinfeld is satire. The self-centred and extremely shallow characters are a long-running commentary on typical American sitcoms and their depiction of Christian family values. They treat romantic partners as entirely disposable, they never learn from their mistakes or demonstrate any form of personal growth whatsoever. They treat sex and taboo topics such as masturbation like a game. Heck, they even demonstrate utter…

Interesting, but I would cut the "Christian" from your description. Those values are not particular to any religion.

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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Post by rubslopes »

nsxwolf wrote: post #176

I'm curious as to why the dialogue is so bad. What AI is this using? When I ask ChatGPT to write a scene, the results are usually somewhat funny: INT. JERRY'S CAR - DAY Jerry and George are driving down the road, with Jerry behind the wheel. Jerry: (gazing at the cup holder) This car is such a piece of junk, it doesn't even have a proper cup holder. George: What are you talking about? It has a cup holder right there!…

I just did a test and got a truly funny Seinfeld scene. I'm amazed.

[Scene opens in Jerry's apartment. Kramer bursts in with a big grin on his face.]

Kramer: Jerry, you won't believe what happened to me last night!

Jerry: What is it?

Kramer: I won the lottery!

Jerry: (surprised) What?! That's fantastic! Congratulations!

Kramer: Yeah, I can't believe it myself. I never win anything.

Jerry: (skeptically) How much did you win?

Kramer: (proudly) Fifty bucks!

Jerry: (disappointed) Fifty bucks? That's it?

Kramer: (defensively) Hey, it's not about the amount, it's about the odds. I beat a million-to-one shot!

Jerry: (teasing) Yeah, I guess it's like winning the Olympics of scratch-off tickets.

Kramer: (serious) You know, I've been thinking. With this newfound wealth, I'm going to quit my job and live the life of leisure.

Jerry: (skeptically) You know, Kramer, I'm not sure fifty bucks will sustain that lifestyle for very long.

Kramer: (undeterred) I'll figure something out. Maybe I'll write a book, or start a business.

Jerry: (smiling) What kind of business? The Scratch-Off Emporium?

Kramer: (laughing) Hey, that's not a bad idea!

[Scene closes with Kramer and Jerry laughing as the scene fades to black.]

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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Post by sizzle »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #163
narrator wrote: post #107

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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.

I’ve been avoiding it because of the actors but I’ll give it a second chance.

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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Post by aww_dang »

SeanAnderson wrote: post #213
zzbzq wrote: post #153

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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

If you have even the slightest actionable proof I am confident advertisers would pay large sums to know the actual reach of their ads. Until then your firm beliefs come across as conspiratorial.

Are ad buys based upon chat activity? I would assume more traditional metrics would be involved.

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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Post by jamilton »

saurik wrote: post #40

People who find this interesting might also find the work being done recently by The Companion--a service that specializes in providing fan service (writers panels, behind the scenes stuff, etc.) for popular science fiction content--with some researchers from Google and the showrunner of Stargate on extended episodes for Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. So like, the "obvious problem" with this content for Seinfel…

Some TTS, like Tortoise-TTS or 15.ai are decent at timing and stress, though I think they're generally more at "read an audiobook if supervised" level, and not "be a voice actor, unsupervised" level.

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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Post by jamilton »

zzbzq wrote: post #153
flangola7 wrote: post #4

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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

To what end? Most big streamers have a low tolerance for total spam.

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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Post by jamilton »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #165
danwee wrote: 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 fewes…

Wonder how far you could get with ML plus a simple filter for games that are unlikely to be interesting. Something like "how strange is this stream title for Twitch" and "does this stream preview look like other stream previews that were interesting". Can neural networks detect je ne sais quoi and whimsy?

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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Post by unixhero »

RankingMember wrote: post #203
Taywee wrote: post #23

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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 microwave so loud it's practically been elevated to a cast member cracks me up

The microwave is massively funny

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

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Post by kerpotgh »

dbspin wrote: post #195
nsxwolf wrote: post #176

I'm curious as to why the dialogue is so bad. What AI is this using? When I ask ChatGPT to write a scene, the results are usually somewhat funny: INT. JERRY'S CAR - DAY Jerry and George are driving down the road, with Jerry behind the wheel. Jerry: (gazing at the cup holder) This car is such a piece of junk, it doesn't even have a proper cup holder. George: What are you talking about? It has a cup holder right there!…

That's actually extremely impressive, even for chat GPT. Not only is it a coherent scene, the humour emerges from a disagreement about an incidental detail in the lived environment. While situated in a realistic situation that's typical of the series. With the detail in question being a real environmental detail of that situation. George is irate and Jerry sarcastically winds him up. It literally could be segment fro…

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