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@jnadeau This facinates me. I'm reminded of the (very popular) AI-voiced (and probably AI-scripted) recap videos on youtube. There's whole channels dedicated to summarizing movies and TV shows with badly done computer-generated voiceovers. I've watched a couple myself, and while I find them grating, I also found them pretty useful for getting the gist of a movie or show that I wasn't heavily invested in watching. 5 comments
@jnadeau The joke about AI eating your dinner also has weird resonance with some people. Consider all the liquid meal replacements, clearly meant to bypass all that boring eating so the person drinking them can speedrun getting their calories and stabilizing their blood sugar. I'm not going to mock that, as I myself have relied on them more than once, and there's a definite element of assistive-technology to them for certain types of neurodivergence. @jnadeau I guess the point I'm making is that human beings love shortcuts. In some ways that's most of what our brain does. Most engineering is about making a hard thing easier. We also, as a species, have an obsession with Ideas and mistakenly believe that Ideas have value. Ideas are practically worthless, we all have hundreds of them, but we treat concepts as if they're worth more than the execution of said concepts. @jnadeau I think AI generated art is doing incredible harm, largely because of the extensive use of plagiarism in it's creation, but the argument that it's somehow counter to human nature? I'm not so sure. There are lots of people who enjoy hard work, or at least enjoy specific kinds of hard work that they're good at, but there's tons of real actual humans who want the result without any of the effort of getting there. |
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@jnadeau Those videos are immensely popular, and an obvious source of passive income for whoever is churning them out. The channels show up, get copyright struck, disappear, show up again... probably programmatically generated.
In short, there ARE some people who want AI to watch TV for them.