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He is wrong. Movies will be automated and when they will be, all these actors will be first one to go. I say this despite him and Matt Damon my favorite actor

• dartos 2y ago
  Strong claims. Have we seen any other form of communication and/or artistic expression become totally automated? Even 2d art hasn’t been automated by image generation models. It’s just another tool in the bag.
  • notahacker 2y ago
    We haven't even automated live music performances, which are actually bigger business than they were before the existence of recorded music
    • nunez 2y ago
      Counterpoint: ABBA at The Sphere
      • dartos 2y ago
        Pre-recorded != automated
    • dartos 2y ago
      Even in the most popular vocaloid concerts, musicians still play music. I can’t imagine going to a “live” concert to watch a machine generate music, unless significant work went in to the light show. Defeats the purpose At that point I’m there for the lights.
• threetonesun 2y ago
  The movie industry is already endlessly pumping out crap with real actors, I suppose it won't get much worse if it removes them entirely. On the other hand, there's a whole other medium for actors that AI can't replace.
  • walterbell 2y ago
    In addition to the experiential gap between theatre and film, we have productions which translate from one to the other. Each is a distinct market. A subset of the Chinese TV version of "Three-Body Problem" consists of video gameplay "footage". The lack of human actors is compensated by over the top footage of cataclysms, which could never be filmed. It's mostly additive to the storyline with human actors. AI can create new media markets with different cost structures. These will necessarily subtract some attention-minutes from existing film audiences. But it should also lower production costs for artistic filmmakers focused on portrayal of human actors for human audiences.
• squidsoup 2y ago
  You can't automate art, sorry. Maybe you can crank out a bunch of hollywood dross that undiscerning audiences will slop up, but you're not adding anything of value to our culture.
• burnte 2y ago
  I don't want to watch a movie cranked out by an AI. I want to see a movie that came from another human's mind because they have an idea they want to communicate with me. LLMs have nothing to "say".
• slater 2y ago
  > He is wrong. Movies will be automated and when they will be, all these actors will be first one to go. Man, whom should I trust? A guy who's been living and breathing movies since the 1990s, or a 19-minute-old, green-colored account on hackernews? Man, I just don't know.
  • danielmarkbruce 2y ago
    Why trust either? What would a guy who has been living and breathing movies since the 1990s know about AI? Zero, and it shows. Did you trust newspaper guys in the 1990s too?
    • slater 2y ago
      > Did you trust newspaper guys in the 1990s too? Vs. some ding-dong yelling on the street corner? Yup!
      • danielmarkbruce 2y ago
        That was a mistake. At least the guy yelling on the corner was obviously nonsense and you could realize you shouldn't trust him. The newspaper guy had a sophisticated, industry insider sounding explanation for why newspapers would always be around. Detroit guys had logical sounding reasons why Tesla wouldn't work. Aerospace and defense guys had logical sounding reasons spacex wouldn't work. Everyone in retail had reasons amazon wouldn't work. People who have been doing something for a long time haven't had a great record of predicting the future in the very field they operate in.
• mempko 2y ago
  My prediction. As more and more movies are made with AI, and when they start replacing real actors with AI, people are going to value movies less, and live performances more. I expect AI will bring a resurgence of live performances like live theater. Why? Because we value what people do more than what machines do.
  • squidsoup 2y ago
    I wonder if we're already starting to see this - have noticed that jazz is becoming popular again with young audiences.