The A.I. Apocalypse - Beyond the Black Void
Added 2025-05-27 23:18:12 +0000 UTC
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Everyone here is so enthusiastic. That’s interesting
Elizabeth Thompson
2025-06-11 02:11:58 +0000 UTCThe Congress is a good movie about this subject and it came out in 2013
aztectheater_employee
2025-05-30 13:16:13 +0000 UTCI've been a fan of Ed Zitron for years and while this is a very long read I think it's a worthwhile one if you're interested in the topic. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter
Kate Gottli
2025-05-29 20:11:31 +0000 UTCQuoting and paraphrasing Rory Sutherland from a 2017 edge.org conversation about costly signaling theory here, because I think back on it a lot as AI advances (link below) … basically “we humans attach significance to a piece of communication in some way proportionally to the cost of generating or transmitting it,” so with regards to animation studio execs thinking they’ll just use Weird AI to efficiently crank out slop on the cheap, they’ll theoretically lose out every time to shows that apply and signal some level of scarce resource in their show’s production - in this case hands-on human creativity. Why? Because a “sunk-cost demonstration of faith in what you’re selling” - for example, paying animators and script writers to put their unique stamp on it - equals more effective communication to our brains … I see two likely scenarios: AI advances to the point that all digital video becomes cheap, meaningless communication (equivalent to SPAM email) and everyone ignores it/finds a more meaningful medium (like VR mixed with chemicals in The Congress), or a fraction of creators in this sea of cheapness find ways to effectively signal their “costs” and audiences specifically seek them out. Or both. Link: https://www.edge.org/conversation/rory_sutherland-things-to-hang-on-your-mental-mug-tree
Jay Benton
2025-05-28 17:05:06 +0000 UTC"Best of the WeirdAl" when? I the best of cases, WeirdAl can be used as a creative tool for original ideas. Usually, the writing and the editing, will be human, but WeirdAl allows to put picture and sound on ideas. There's this YouTube channel, NeuralViz, which pulls it off great. But for one quality creator, how many garbage factories?
Bill Wilson
2025-05-28 13:45:41 +0000 UTC
