I see this take a lot and I don't get why this is different from what we have right now.

> Unlimited 24/7 AI streamers on Twitch.

So basically Twitch as it is?

> Unlimited 24/7 AI TV shows and movies (RIP Netflix, Hollywood).

Which is TV right now?

> Unlimited AI opinions about any topics.

Welcome to Twitter.

You filter in the same way people always have. Studying, learning, acquiring taste.

My concern after seeing the AI-generated Seinfeld knock-off that passed through HN today is that it'll be easier to train a model to generate addictive content than it is to create that content with a human.

I mean the AI Seinfeld was terrible, but it's an entirely software generated "show." Someone will figure out how to feed measurements of engagement into the model, and the model will continuously "improve." The net result is it will eventually generate an infinite amount of the most addictive content ever created.

And of course all this will be a profitable thing to do, because ads.

The addictive trash content on the Internet is basically going to go from heroin to fentanyl.

> The net result is it will eventually generate an infinite amount of the most addictive content ever created.

I played around with the free tier of NovelAI to see what all the fuss is about, and am absolutely convinced you are on to something.

Generating a story by repeatedly pushing a button and being fed different outcomes is literally slot-machine behavior.

> an infinite amount of the most addictive content ever created

or it could go in the Stable Diffusion direction, where you can just ask for whatever you'd like to see more at any given time.

"Computer, please play a four episodes TV series about a cyborg chef killing aliens in space. Please add violence, drug use and a plot twist at the end".

I think you missed the point that he/she means AI TV and AI Twitch, not Human TV and Human Twitch, or whatever you want to call it. The point is that the content will be 24/7 AI-generated

I know it's not the same, but the implication is that an influx of effectively unlimited content will change the equation for consumers. I don't think it will: even in the world of human-written books, human-made TV, human-streamed Twitch, content is already effectively infinite, and already almost entirely garbage.

Agree that it's effectively infinite. Strong disagree that is it almost entirely garbage. That opinion is your filter system working and not an objective evaluation.

For starters, you can't evaluate most of it at all because you don't have time to do any significant sampling of any significant portion of it. How many TV episodes, movies, books, YouTube videos, video games, were made in the last twenty years? Do you really think that "garbage" is an accurate description of 99% of them?

I don't thinks that objective. It _might_ be fair to say that 95% are relatively poor quality or not to your taste. But "garbage"?

The thing that's challenging is that to be fair to this content we have to separate our superficial judgement of its quality from our evaluation of it's relevance to us. For practical purposes, we have to find ways to dismiss almost all of it because we do not have a million years to consume content. But that doesn't mean that it's almost all bad content.

I believe GP is referring to the multiple AI-driven vtubers on Twitch (vedal987 and motherv3 I think?). They're not yet 24/7 because they still require human supervision for reasons -- vedal987 was recently banned for holocaust denial, IIRC.

> Which is TV right now?

Yeah, not much a change now, but I hope demand for real TV/film will remain. Imagine they were able to shit out entirely AI generated shows and slowly phase out real media because it's just too costly. A lot of good stuff (a lot of bad stuff too, but that's beside the point) would be thrown out with the bath water imo.

> Imagine they were able to shit out entirely AI generated shows and slowly phase out real media because it's just too costly

I mean, its easy to imagine, because its the same effect that drove the reality TV displacing scripted content trend.

> Unlimited 24/7 AI TV shows and movies (RIP Netflix, Hollywood).

I never thought of that, but it's entirely possible and sounds pretty scary. Assuming that this works and then add 2 human generations to it, which would perceive our movies like we do the black and white ones.

While a "classic movie" would then mean a human-made movie, it's scary to think that the new stream of media entertainment would be unlimited. Like you'd have to decide when to stop binge-watching, because the show would always go on.

> you'd have to decide when to stop binge-watching, because the show would always go on.

I would argue that this is already the case. I'd hazard a guess that almost any concept one is interested in, that can be synthesized in a few words (e.g. "deep-ocean human habitats", or "ethics and techniques for this niche psychological framework"), has an infinite rabbithole available online: usually, starting from Wikipedia, there are countless pages and videos about and around the topic.

So the ability to stop binging, i.e. sufficient self-awareness, is already a pretty useful skill, and it will be increasingly necessary.

Yes, I fully agree. I was hesitating while pressing the submit button, but there was this thought of a never ending show in my head which felt uncanny.

It could evolve to a point where the my version of Breaking Bad would be a completely parallel universe to the one you would be offered. Suddenly one variant could become more interesting and so popular that it would become the official version. There's a lot that can be thought and discussed about such a capability.

But in essence you're right, unlimited binge-watching is already a reality.

> Unlimited 24/7 AI TV shows and movies (RIP Netflix, Hollywood).

This right here is where we can make obscene money off of Hollywood. LLMs are a godsend for streaming platforms. Everything from script to sound track. Production costs will sink, and can scale to meet demand. Open Q is whether people will eat the AI dog food (think faux meat..) and history suggests the proverbial couch potato will lap up any slop if continuously delivered.

Will be interesting to see what the post-AI movement will look like. I imagine some subscription service by a company that provides "authentic human generated consumable media" which has everything you listed from songs/tv/movies/news etc created by humans. I can see the early adopters of AI will be the early adopters of this type of service as well having gotten tired of the AI golden age. Truly human made content will become a status symbol and beyond the reaches of the average joe as AI generated content screws the supply v demand equation. I can see arts and adjacent fields becoming as in-demand as STEM in around 50-60 years.

Maybe people finally adhere to the requests of those bumper stickers plastered on the side of local music venues for the last few decades... "Drum machines have no soul" "Support local music"

and the next thing will be a scandal about how said service that was supposed to be AI-free content was actually AI generated (much cheaper), it will flop and then a replacement will come up and do the exact same thing until people get used to AI-free being just a gimmick marketing term.

Just like it has happened with so many terms before it.

>Will be interesting to see what the post-AI movement will look like.

Butlerian Jihad

> The bigger struggle will be for discovering authenticity

Go to a local open mic! We're pretty far off from having to worry if the person singing their kind-of-alright song is a robot or not. The Cactus Cafe in Austin has a fantastic open mic night and you will definitely see talented songwriters and meet plenty of authentically human musicians.

I wouldn't be surprised if GPT4 can write better scripts than some of the Netflix originals. But that just raises the bar for what we accept from human writers, which is fine by me.

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