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> Hollywood's wet dream. Except it bankrupts Hollywood, they are no longer needed. Of people can generate full movies at home, there is no more Hollywood. The

> Hollywood's wet dream. Except it bankrupts Hollywood, they are no longer needed. Of people can generate full movies at home, there is no more Hollywood. The end game is endless ultra personalized content beamed into people's heads every free waking hour of the day. Hollywood is irrelevant in that future.

FirmwareBurner 1y ago
Good point, this is indeed a threat to them. Like how many young people are watching streamers now instead of worshiping present day's music, TV or movie star like in the 90's. The likes of Youtube and Twitch could be more valuable than Hollywood. That's why I think Hollywood is rushing to adopt gen-AI, so they can churn out personalized content faster and cheaper straight to streaming, at the same rate as indie producers.
jsheard 1y ago
> Of people can generate full movies at home, there is no more Hollywood. LLMs have been in the oven for years longer than this, and I'm not seeing any signs of people generating their own novels at home. Well, besides the get-rich-quick grifters spamming the Kindle store with incoherent slop in the hopes they can trick someone into parting with a dollar before they realize they've been had.
- FirmwareBurner 1y ago
  > I'm not seeing any signs of people generating their own novels at home Most humans are also not good at writing great scripts/novels either. Just look at the movies that bring in billions of dollars at the box office. Do you think you need a famous novelist to write you a Fast & Furious 11 script? Sure, there are still great writers that can make scripts that tickle the mind, but that's not what the studios want anymore. They want to push VFX heavy rehashed slop that's cheap to make, easy to digest for the doom-scrolling masses of consumers, and rakes in a lot of money. You're talking about what makes gourmet Michelin star food but the industry is making money selling McDonals.
- com2kid 1y ago
  Look at view counts for short form videos that are 100% AI generated. The good "creators" are already making bank, helped by app algorithms matching people up to content they'll find addictive to view. The content doesn't have to be good it just has to be addictive for 80% of the population.
  - echelon 1y ago
    You're describing the difference between The Godfather and Skibidi Toilet.
    - com2kid 1y ago
      Do you think platforms like YouTube and tiktok care? Whatever gets the views.
pelagicAustral 1y ago
I wish I could feed Dan Simmons' books to an AI and watch at my leisure
- myth_drannon 1y ago
  That's potentially not far in the future. If you can drop a couple of research pdfs and generate a podcast discussion on it, it is even more straightforward to generate a video based on a text. The limit is mostly hardware.
gh0stcat 1y ago
Infinite Jest?

FirmwareBurner 1y ago

Good point, this is indeed a threat to them. Like how many young people are watching streamers now instead of worshiping present day's music, TV or movie star like in the 90's. The likes of Youtube and Twitch could be more valuable than Hollywood. That's why I think Hollywood is rushing to adopt gen-AI, so they can churn out personalized content faster and cheaper straight to streaming, at the same rate as indie producers.

jsheard 1y ago

> Of people can generate full movies at home, there is no more Hollywood. LLMs have been in the oven for years longer than this, and I'm not seeing any signs of people generating their own novels at home. Well, besides the get-rich-quick grifters spamming the Kindle store with incoherent slop in the hopes they can trick someone into parting with a dollar before they realize they've been had.

FirmwareBurner 1y ago
> I'm not seeing any signs of people generating their own novels at home Most humans are also not good at writing great scripts/novels either. Just look at the movies that bring in billions of dollars at the box office. Do you think you need a famous novelist to write you a Fast & Furious 11 script? Sure, there are still great writers that can make scripts that tickle the mind, but that's not what the studios want anymore. They want to push VFX heavy rehashed slop that's cheap to make, easy to digest for the doom-scrolling masses of consumers, and rakes in a lot of money. You're talking about what makes gourmet Michelin star food but the industry is making money selling McDonals.
com2kid 1y ago
Look at view counts for short form videos that are 100% AI generated. The good "creators" are already making bank, helped by app algorithms matching people up to content they'll find addictive to view. The content doesn't have to be good it just has to be addictive for 80% of the population.
- echelon 1y ago
  You're describing the difference between The Godfather and Skibidi Toilet.
  - com2kid 1y ago
    Do you think platforms like YouTube and tiktok care? Whatever gets the views.

pelagicAustral 1y ago

I wish I could feed Dan Simmons' books to an AI and watch at my leisure

myth_drannon 1y ago
That's potentially not far in the future. If you can drop a couple of research pdfs and generate a podcast discussion on it, it is even more straightforward to generate a video based on a text. The limit is mostly hardware.

gh0stcat 1y ago

Infinite Jest?