Starker on 4/11/2025 at 23:10
Generally, I agree that AI is the future of games, movies, etc. Not only because I know at least the movie industry is feverishly working on it, but also because that's what happened in my own industry. Machine translation used to be something of a joke and it's still pretty awful compared to human translators, but it has evolved to a point where it's passable enough. So there's been less and less translations done by humans and more and more machine translated texts that have in the best case been human edited, maybe only human proofread, or left as they are in the worst case. Because it's just cheaper that way and a large part of the consumers cannot tell the difference or just don't care, especially when they don't understand the source language. Likewise, I think that in the future there will be less jobs for artists and more jobs for people to fix AI art, because it's much easier and requires less skill and humans will always go the path of least resistance and most money.
As for AI-generated works, I don't think it will happen any time soon, but it's certainly the dream of several tech billionaires I've listened to in the last few weeks (such as Musk on Joe Rogan). It's the end of the tyranny of the creator and liberation for the consumer (and corporations). AI will simply copy existing artists and you can have art in the style of Miyazaki or whoever you want on demand. Likewise, you will be able to have any story in the style of your favourite author with exactly the kind of plot and characters that you want and expect. And of course (
https://x.com/EdwardMDruce/status/1984721051587395619) AI can make better music than any human musician could, etc. And it's not like everyone will see this as a dystopia. To a lot of people it doesn't really matter if something was created by a human artist or by a machine that was using a human artist's work to generate something similar.
Azaran on 4/11/2025 at 23:25
On the one hand this is beyond sad and may push human actors and musicians to the sidelines.
On the other hand, media and music has become so bland, uniform, and formulaic; almost every new hit song that comes out is autotuned, and uses nearly the same cheap millennial beat as 1000 others that have already been done - it's just noise that's popular for a few weeks, only to get replaced by the next variation of noise. Even many modern indie artists just imitate the mainstream, because it's what's popular. Upto the mid 2000's, being musically unique was still prized by record companies. Streaming and the internet have wrecked musical output and variety.
So maybe it's a good thing if we can generate better music with AI. But then again, we won't appreciate something that can simply be regenerated ad-infinitum.
A lot of our culture is about to go down the toilet
Starker on 5/11/2025 at 00:44
Well, not everyone appreciates AI slop. Maybe because I'm old.... er, but from my perspective, a lot of the entertainment I consume, such as TV shows, anime, etc, have improved massively over the past 25 years. Some of the best content made has been on this side of the millennium, as far as I'm concerned. And even in mediums that have been flooded with cheap formulaic things, such as Marvel movies, there are still masterpieces to be found. There's still great music, movies, games, etc. It's harder to find because a lot of the gatekeepers that curated those things have disappeared, but it's still there.
