the_blackwell_ninja [EST]

@pluralistic says it better than I ever could.

"Studio bosses didn’t think that AI scriptwriters would produce the next Citizen Kane. Instead, they were betting that once an AI could produce a screenplay that wasn’t completely unwatchable, the financial markets would put pressure on every studio to switch to a slurry of satisficing crap, and that we, the obedient “consumers,” would shrug and accept it."

https://doctorow.medium.com/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-ship-236575979d5c

Oct 1, 2023 at 4:27pmWeb
Show threadErik NelsonOct 1, 2023
@the_blackwell_ninja @pluralistic In Orwell's 1984 there is a guy in the office down the hallway at the Ministry of Truth who runs a machine that creates automatically-generated love poems.
Show threadDr Russell GlassonOct 1, 2023
Orwell has an idea of computer generated music to entertain the prols as well. He clearly had a handle on the culture industry
Show threadLeo Ré JorgeOct 1, 2023
@ruse I'm quite shocked these sections from 1984 haven't emerged more often amid this whole AI hype. It's a perfect encapsulation of the dreams of the culture industry heads (and the nightmares of everyone else)
Show threadToken Sane PersonOct 1, 2023
@nerpulus @the_blackwell_ninja @pluralistic
For that matter Smith's lover Julia worked the machine that wrote pornographic stories for the proles. When he met her she had hurt her hand in the mechanism.
Show threadshift/resetOct 1, 2023
@nerpulus @the_blackwell_ninja @pluralistic
Interestingly, there have been programs to do that since the 50s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strachey_love_letter_algorithm
Strachey love letter algorithm - Wikipedia

Show threadErik NelsonOct 2, 2023
@shift_reset @the_blackwell_ninja @pluralistic Thank you for that. I did not know about it.
Show threadPeter PrincipleOct 2, 2023

@nerpulus @the_blackwell_ninja @pluralistic And a group that churns out porn for the proles.

They'd be running Trump's campaign today.

Show threadLisPiOct 1, 2023

@the_blackwell_ninja @pluralistic That seems like a pretty bad plan. There's months worth of back-to-back watching of okay to mediocre-but-still better than AI-generated stuff already existing (and I'm thinking solely of anime, if one is less selective there's even more).

People would just stop paying for anything new that isn't indie.

Show threadGanWeavingOct 1, 2023
@the_blackwell_ninja @pluralistic sunk? Might be a bit early to make such a claim