Comment by leptons
15 hours ago
It's a race to the (AI-slop) bottom. But most of the inhabitants of the world will barely notice.
I have to wonder if movies will improve or not with AI, because some really stupid franchises have seen stupid amounts of money, while most people barely watch the actually good creative stuff. We're already swamped with unwatchable schlock, but I'm not sure it will improve if we automate it. It's the same people spending the money to make, promote, and distribute movies, the AI doesn't have any money to make a movie or the impetus. But if most people cared about art, creativity, and good storytelling, there probably wouldn't be a race to the bottom in the entertainment industry.
Idiocracy was a documentary, and "ASS" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kJZjU2k5abs is what the AI will calculate we want to see, and it will win awards.
AI will make professional level movies cheaper and easier to make, which will the medium more accessible. The AAA movies probably won't look any better, but indie stuff that previously would have been suggestive and bare due to budgetary constraints can now be more direct and lavish. In many cases that's going to be the difference an indie project being a viable film and not.
>AI will make professional level movies cheaper and easier to make
If you're talking about the kind of movies with big-budget explosions and violence, then no thanks. That isn't what I'm talking about at all. Sure, AI will make that schlock cheaper. A lot of the "indie" stuff is garbage, too.
I use my instant pot to make risotto in 20 minutes with very little effort that is about 90% as good (in my very stubborn opinion) as making it the hard way. I very much appreciate an amazing risotto, but when I make it myself I'll usually choose the instant pot versus the extra work.
I feel Hollywood might be the same way.
I've never understood this argument... most of Hollywood today is already slop lol