Generative AI and the future for Entertainment Industry

[Svengali]

An analysis on the impact of Generative AI on the Entertainment Industry over the next few years:

FUTURE UNSCRIPTED (from Cartoon Brew, 1/31/24)


sven

[Sewie]

Seen this? The end of inbetweeners.

[mikdog]

Seen this? The end of inbetweeners.

WOW!!!

[Svengali]

Where are "we" going?

Personally, I find the current "sturm und drang " around Generative AI fascinating and terrifying. It is pretty much incomprehensible to the average civilian (non-programmer like me) but I believe we are obligated to listen and learn and attempt to understand what Generative AI is/will become.

The above "Animate" package is one tiny yet consequential "token" product of Generative AI.

Here are two worthy recent (YouTube and blog) links on the subject, (self-serving as they may be for nvidia)

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Keynote at COMPUTEX 2024 in Taiwan

What is CUDA?

sven

[BinaryD00D]

Seen this? The end of inbetweeners.

Maybe, maybe not. This one in particular I don't find as offensive as other generative AI's. It's closer to EbSynth than StableDiffusion. It still requires input of the artist and, for anything that isn't the loop of a still or a very simple small movement, you outright require full animation for the "finished look" to be applied on all the frames. EVEN THEN, you can see a lot of inconsistencies in the coloring, which would have to be painted over. In a well oiled pipeline, that might actually be less efficient than just doing the normal way. And of course, all of these are, to be expected, extremely low quality and resolution. You'd need to upscale all of the frames which might take a while, and even then, it's more likely than not that it'd generate a lot of artifacts. Again, cleaning those up might, in many cases, be more time consuming than just having professionals just doing everything from the ground up.

The only danger this poses is the same old thing, related to our economic system and network of incentives. Even if it isn't that useful, you WILL see investors and producers pushing it to attempt to cut corners for higher profit margins. The actual team will know it won't help, and friction will be inevitable. Opposing pressures likely won't make a good product easier to make even if they find a way to make this tech useful as a "tool". Though the more implemented AI technology is within the pipeline, the more volatile the development becomes and more homoginized as well. Cutting more and more corners, leading to amputation.

As the already ultra-saturated market gets exponentially flooded, the unscrupulous adoption of this type of technologies will prove to be a tragedy of the commons. A race to the bottom where only the providers of the tech have anything to gain. Comes to light that "disruption" is seen not only as a positive, but as a deitified ideal in the ethos of Silicon Valley. It's like all industries right now are the Taxi industry, and Uber is comming, lurking over everything. All trades hollowed out so Big Tech's services become the only viable options.
So then, our most important faculties like cognition and creativity become sistemically liable to be offset and outsourced to systems we don't own or understand. The disruption of the arts and entertainment was but a microcosm to what'll happen to everything else as well. The public doesn't know, or care, or is able to tell the difference in most cases. So can thus the technocrats get away with mass surveilance and displacement as they follow the rules of a reality that does not yet exist. Collectively, all these companies working on AI own about 10% of the world's GDP. Altman and Musk and Zuckerberg's (and many others) decisions will have way more of an impact on you than your own government, yet none ellected them. For this reason must Machine Learning technology become a political object, discussed in the forefront of every debate. Right now AI is the Car when there were no roads, or sidewalks, or street signs, or seatbelts. And Silicon Valley accelerates its development so they always have a leg-up over legislation which is slow and overly beaurucratic, always behind Big Tech's moves- and big governments like the US continually lobied, preventing the safe-guards and fail-safe's that are much needed. Considering even the biggest tech companies are willing to now invade your private and personal data to clench the hunger of their ai machines (when stealing the public data of the whole world wasn't enought) it's safe to say that there is close to no values that are aligned to humanity in the intentions of the tech sovereigns. 'Supply and Demand' exists solely in the relation of them with their investors, the consumers are merely steerable biomass made to adopt the trickling down of their ideology, to accept a world from which they'd be locked behind. As it affects the whole world, the internet spreading through countless individual governments, which are their own discrete systems, to face this poisoning of reality and unprecedented job loss, this will be made so to snowball into chaos of biblical proportions the less the regulation of history's most disruptive technology is slowed down or swept under the rug.