Comment by ivell
3 hours ago
Although Verne had written about 1960, the social situation seems to be something that could for 2060.
I read a comment elsewhere speculating that the article was written by AI. It could be, but it also shows that authors have to now go extra lengths to prove what they write is not from a machine.
I am afraid future of art is bleak. Poems hand written by poets will be competing with machines. Movies by Nolan and AI probably would not be easily distinguishable. Would we still pay for human made movies when AI can generate one for us, with the ending and style we want?
Of course there will be value to human generated content, but probably much less than how it is today. It will be probably niche like art work for millionaires to boast than for masses to consume.
In that sense, I would say Verne was right to be worried.
I don't understand the supposed value of AI-made art tailored to the viewer's wishes. One of the best film-watching experiences I've had recently was After Hours, which I got sent to by some random online article linking to a scene [1]. I would never have asked for this film or been able to describe it without having seen it. My favorite book of all time is One Hundred Years of Solitude, which I was forced to read in high school (balancing out all of the other nonsense they made us read) -- it's set in a small Colombian town and has about as little to do with my life (in a capital city in Central Europe) as imaginable. I love the webcomic 1/0 [2], whose author was a creationist when writing it (I found it as an insufferable atheist kid).
We find art that is fun and interesting and unexpected and it expands what we are. That's one of the purposes of art. Watching something predictable eventually gets your survival boredom instinct to kick in. Is this not a common experience?
[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=Iwo4-wcodpM&pp=0gcJCXICo7VqN5tD
[2] https://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=170
> I don't understand the supposed value of AI-made art tailored to the viewer's wishes.
Some people do not like tragic endings while they love the premise of the movie. Some have issues where violence in movies could disturb them for days. So to be able to take a premise while toning down on violence and having a happy ending would be attractive for many people. There is a reason why many hollywood movies are variations of Americans saving world with a happy ending. Movies with tragic endings or challenging preconceived notions are not going to be successful.
In that sense, we would be able to make our own offbeat movies with intersting premises, instead of watching the usual movies prefered by average movie goers.