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Show HN: AI That Writes Entire Screenplays for You

by jawerty on 10/7/23, 3:13 PM with 4 comments

• by meristohm on 10/7/23, 3:40 PM

  But why? Novelty is one thing, and gaining some understanding of the art generated from a group of people programming their own biases into a machine that spits out a product of up to billions of other people's input, but at the end of the day I pay attention to the credits: who wrote the play? What else have they written? Why do they choose the topics they do? How do I relate to them? What might I learn from them, this other human being or group of individuals?

  Consider paint-by-number, which I remember from childhood and which had a resurgence in popularity recently: it's a thing we humans made, it's fine that it exists (especially since it doesn't cost much to make, presumably), and I don't think of it all that often because it isn't that interesting. I lump this AI art in with pbn; sure, there are probably some standout pieces because humans have made some awesome art, but it's too mechanical for my taste. However, I'm open to being surprised and moved by artificial art, but it's likely just an exception to the general rule of rehashed work stolen from others (to be fair, human artist Austin Kleon says to steal from others to make your art, but a machine is not a human even if it is programmed by one or many, and I'd rather our resources go to feed us animals and the ones we share earth with rather than pour so much into computers).

  Like cryptocurrency (the wasteful proof-of-work kind, anyway)and NFTs, LLM/ML art is a fad.