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More Than Television and Movies: AI, Art, and the Struggle for Humanity
(jaredyatessexton.substack.com)
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Is Jared not aware of what life was like for the average person in a pre-industrial society? This is looking at history through an extremely rose-tinted lens. Sure, there have been periods where robber barons ruled supreme, but that's not inherent in industrialization. There were literal barons before then, with feudal serfs under them who were slaves by a very slightly different name.
And if modern writers can be fully replaced by that, that doesn't give a very high review of those writers' capabilities, does it?
Disney did that without any use of AI. Studios don't need AI to roll out soulless sequels and reboots and paint-by-numbers summer blockbusters bereft of sense or creativity. They've been doing that for decades. If you're upset that such movies do well, that's not AI's fault. The fault, dear Brutus, lies in ourselves.
Again, streaming has been a thing for decades. Netflix was founded in 1997. Series and movies have been wiped off of streaming services for tax purposes for years. AI has nothing to do with this.
Well, no. It's already done.
What you want is for a way to make television and movies without needing those big giant greedy corporations to be involved at all. And surprise, that's the sort of thing that AI could be poised to deliver. The cheaper it gets to match the special effects of "big-budget" hollywood movies, the more AI voice actors or even virtual actors that hobbyists can use in their productions, the more "real art" will be able to compete with those soulless studios.
Just like with industrialization, the machines are neither good nor evil. It's all in how you use them.