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This will be Hollywood's and Netflix's biggest challenge. In a not so distant future you will create your own movies. Or even better: There will be models tea

• bartislartfast 4y ago
  we're only a few years away from getting season 2 of firefly, as it would have looked in 2004
  • naiv 4y ago
    I was thinking about Firefly and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inside_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inside_(TV_series) :D
    • bartislartfast 4y ago
      I'm sure we're not the only ones. Probably half the AI industry wants to be able to do that
    • atonse 4y ago
      Glad to know there will be enough people trying to create more firefly episodes!
  • turtleyacht 4y ago
    Thank-you for that. Fans could share prompts as episodes. Wonder how canon would be established, or if it's just throughlines in a wonderful multiverse, remixed to infinity. You can't take the sky from me~
    • bartislartfast 4y ago
      no more than fan-fiction, it would be a popularity contest. "Firefly season 2 by rustyBones447 is the best one"
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• _the_inflator 4y ago
  I slightly disagree here. Not really challenges, but business models. There is no free lunch so to say. Maybe there will be highly personalized subscriptions that allow for hyperparameter tuning in this way. I doubt this is something Netflix fears, it is something they gonna embrace. Computation of such movies won't be cheap.
• TeMPOraL 4y ago
  What may save them is that self-service generated movies might end up being worthless as entertainment. A large part of value of movies, TV shows, books, videogames - even paintings and sculptures - is that they're part of external and shared reality. With self-generated movies (shows, books, games, ...), there will be no process of discovery to enjoy, no immersion to experience. There will be nothing to share or discuss with others, as everyone will have their own version of the story. There will be no canonical version to talk about - there will only be everyone's headcanon, all equivalent, all personal. All boring and worthless.
  • nemomarx 4y ago
    That kinda sounds like fanfiction to me? And people share and talk about that all the time. It would definitely be more niche, but I could see sites and communities for it springing up, the video equivalent of AO3 or so on. I do think it would be more satisfying to let other people do the "self generated" personal versions of a movie and watch that though, even if it's hobbyist level.
    • TeMPOraL 4y ago
      Right, but still, there is only so much fanfiction produced for any given franchise, as there are only so many fanfiction writers able and inclined to do the work. Now imagine if anyone could casually just fork a piece of writing and adapt to their personal tastes. "Like this, but make X be in love with Y instead of Z. Also make Z not really die but make a surprise comeback in the final chapter." It might be fun to play with such capability for a moment or two, but I can't imagine anyone enjoying exchanging such stories - if everyone can trivially change anything, then everything becomes arbitrary. There is no story, only everyone looking at their own selfie. Incidentally, GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 already give us this capability with smaller pieces of fiction. You can literally alter any short story like I described above, today. Anyone can. And somehow, I don't see any takers. I think people realize there's no entertainment value in it. Hence, this is what might just save Hollywood et al. Erotica is one exception to what I described above, as it's by nature the kind of fiction to be enjoyed personally, not in a wider context. And, of course, erotic story generators are as old as the Internet.
• shrx 4y ago
  There is already the perpetual auto-generated Seinfeld at https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever
  • bartislartfast 4y ago
    Anyone can already watch Seinfeld forever since the DVDs came out
    • hgsgm 4y ago
      Yeah but those are good.
• rejectfinite 4y ago
  >In a not so distant future you will create your own movies. Would be awful. The best movies I have seen I would not have been able to come up with.