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> In the future, media will move faster than copyright. I imagine telling a machine, "make me a new Star Wars film, but with dragons", and out streams the resul

> In the future, media will move faster than copyright. I imagine telling a machine, "make me a new Star Wars film, but with dragons", and out streams the result. That sounds like a dystopia of stagnation and solipsism. Imagine each person becoming a super-fan their own Marvel Cinematic Universe™ that's both utterly derivative and incapable of being a point of connection with others.

sidewndr46 5y ago
"Siri, make me a new self insert! But base this one off Indiana Jones!"
echelon 5y ago
Take a look at TikTok and YouTube. There are so many people creating content for others. I've no doubt that people will do exactly what you claim and become more absorbed in themselves, but I think the positive use and upside are vastly going to outweigh the gloomy narrative you've laid out. This technology is going to bring about an artistic Renaissance and people will have more ways to express themselves and employ themselves and do the things that they want with their lives.
- tablespoon 5y ago
  >>> In the future, media will move faster than copyright. I imagine telling a machine, "make me a new Star Wars film, but with dragons", and out streams the result. >> That sounds like a dystopia of stagnation and solipsism. Imagine each person becoming a super-fan their own Marvel Cinematic Universe™ that's both utterly derivative and incapable of being a point of connection with others. > Take a look at TikTok and YouTube. There are so many people creating content for others. But those people are creating "content" themselves, they're not asking a competent machine to do it entirely for them. That's such a big difference that they're not even remotely the same kind of activity. > This technology is going to bring about an artistic Renaissance and people will have more ways to express themselves and employ themselves and do the things that they want with their lives. You seem to be talking about something entirely different than what you wrote about in your original comment. That comment described the machine doing the expressing, on demand, with minimal user input.
  - echelon 5y ago
    > That comment described the machine doing the expressing, on demand, with minimal user input. I only gave the machine two inputs. I don't think I'd stop there. I might in fact spend a lot of time with such a technology exploring all of the nooks and crannies of creation space. We're not going to arrive at the "tell the computer what" fully declarative tech immediately. There's a path from here to there that still requires human involvement, just less of it spent on the mundane minutiae. Once we reach that point, we won't rest on our laurels. Just as someone might tweak the directed graph of a plot and serialize it to text today, I'd expect them to have their hands in the "less hands on" systems of the future too. They just won't be drafting and editing prose. That'll be old school.

sidewndr46 5y ago

"Siri, make me a new self insert! But base this one off Indiana Jones!"

echelon 5y ago

Take a look at TikTok and YouTube. There are so many people creating content for others. I've no doubt that people will do exactly what you claim and become more absorbed in themselves, but I think the positive use and upside are vastly going to outweigh the gloomy narrative you've laid out. This technology is going to bring about an artistic Renaissance and people will have more ways to express themselves and employ themselves and do the things that they want with their lives.

tablespoon 5y ago
>>> In the future, media will move faster than copyright. I imagine telling a machine, "make me a new Star Wars film, but with dragons", and out streams the result. >> That sounds like a dystopia of stagnation and solipsism. Imagine each person becoming a super-fan their own Marvel Cinematic Universe™ that's both utterly derivative and incapable of being a point of connection with others. > Take a look at TikTok and YouTube. There are so many people creating content for others. But those people are creating "content" themselves, they're not asking a competent machine to do it entirely for them. That's such a big difference that they're not even remotely the same kind of activity. > This technology is going to bring about an artistic Renaissance and people will have more ways to express themselves and employ themselves and do the things that they want with their lives. You seem to be talking about something entirely different than what you wrote about in your original comment. That comment described the machine doing the expressing, on demand, with minimal user input.
- echelon 5y ago
  > That comment described the machine doing the expressing, on demand, with minimal user input. I only gave the machine two inputs. I don't think I'd stop there. I might in fact spend a lot of time with such a technology exploring all of the nooks and crannies of creation space. We're not going to arrive at the "tell the computer what" fully declarative tech immediately. There's a path from here to there that still requires human involvement, just less of it spent on the mundane minutiae. Once we reach that point, we won't rest on our laurels. Just as someone might tweak the directed graph of a plot and serialize it to text today, I'd expect them to have their hands in the "less hands on" systems of the future too. They just won't be drafting and editing prose. That'll be old school.