This is a process known as proletarianization. It happened to the artisans when we moved to industrial manufacture, it happened to the pastoralists when we moved to factory farming, and now they can finally go after artists and techs and editors.
Shut up with your history man I don’t want to learn and want to repeat until the earth boils, what’s so wrong with that?
No but really, if these tools were actually to be used in such an egregious manor of which their creators envision, their little short term stock bump means actual energy and water scarcity for a lot of us. Yay. Could be any other proletarianization, but we get the one that could really fuck us over
I am wondering if that would work for books. Most books are marketed as: best selling author brandon sanderson etc. So if a book doesn’t have an author on the cover, it would be hard to sell imo. For example, when I am looking for a book to read, I always check out the author and their other works.
Maybe it will be something like this: AI writer based on best selling author brandon sardersons.
But that is probably even worse than having no author on the cover.
We already have ghostwriters. Should be straightforward to conjure up an AI generated face who will look nicer than regular human authors and never say anything awkward, then have a textual genai system where you feed a few cheap ghostwritten works into one end and it regurgitates a franchise of arbitrary length, mimicking the style of someone who will have difficulty challenging the publisher in court. Bring in a new human ghostwriter every now and then to freshen up the training data if needs be. You might need to still employ some editors, but rebrand them as “prompt refiners” and give them shittier contracts.
Honestly, stuff like the MCU could be run like this already for all I know, and if it isn’t, I wonder how long it would take for someone to notice if they switched to this model?
Its the same for films, without Robbie and Gosling would Barbie have done half as well with no name actors or even worse AI generated actors? I am sure Gerwig brought positive attention to the film from her name as well. Name value is important and as Kevin Hart and the Rock are finding out if you don’t spend maintaining it properly its quite easy to lose all that positive association.
Fortunately, that is sure to fail. Unless we find a way to make ai have a desire to spend. No money to spend? No products to sell. Entire system goes out of balance.
Everyone boo this studio
Lionsgate hopes to save “millions and millions” replacing all those tawdry storyboard artists and visual effects crew with “cutting-edge, capital-efficient content creation opportunities,” said vice chairman Michael Burns.
that sounds entirely unfit for human consumption. I can’t wait for Saw XV: Capital-Efficient Content Creation Opportunity! pump that melty-faced banal nonsense straight into my consumer veins!
“There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime, and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.”
The need for UBI continues to grow at an alarming rate.
Will never happen. Those at the top would sooner fund extermination squads to round up the poor than send a single cent in aid.
I hope it goes tits up right quick.
I can count the times I went to the cinema in the last 10 years on 1 hand. Only “Interstellar” was worth the big screen.
It had dumb scientists, a weird love conquers all theme, a bathetic climax that was also on the wrong side of believable and an extremely tacked on epilogue.
Wouldn’t say that I hated it, but it was pretty flawed for what it was. magnificent black hole cgi notwithstanding.
I think I would have liked it better if they had cut another 60-80 minutes from it.
Who hates Interstellar? Inception I believe, but I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who hated Interstellar. Not that they can’t exist, due to my experience or anything.
