Thread by @JustineBateman

Here’s my theory: Art is ALL going to go AI. All film, all music, all animation, etc. And soon.

A friend of mine’s been messing around with AI animation on his IG acct. Another friend who’s an actress has been scanned more than once for films, where they can just use her image if she can’t make it to reshoots or something.

The most “successful” distributors of film, tv, and music aren’t even people who got into the entertainment business. They’re just tech bros with platforms that need content, any level of it is fine. Ok, we’ve seen that already.

But, I think we are going to see the making of “content” entirely via AI happen at a rapid pace. My God, if Netflix, etc can save the expense of the $4B they spend on shitty “content” & just have an algorithm make it instead, for free essentially, 24-7, it’s a big win for them.

Then you don’t even need the development execs. They can go back to just having coders and that’s it, with code generating “content.”

Then with that being “ready-to-wear,” if you will, and any human-made art, music, or film will be haute couture and will charge wealthy patrons large fees to see/listen/screen their work.

But, human-made art will no longer be for the masses, because greed pushed it out in favor of AI “content.” Or as a friend of mine puts it, “We’ll all go back to having our own personal jesters.”

I’ve been trying to bang the drum for years about “content” instead of actual films, but now that people have grown so accustomed to shitty “content,” they won’t notice the shift to AI “content.”

We will see the end of Art in our lifetime. If you haven’t noticed yet, this 20-yr trend of sequels, remakes, reboots, reposting, reblogging, repurposing other people’s work & pop-culture has resulted in an almost absence of really new art, music, film, etc, with few exceptions.

Look, it’s hard to disrupt something “in transition,” so we’re going to have to see this AI baby birthed before anything is going to be able to kill it. It’s going to be a comical “9 months” until that point.

BRB, going to read about the transition from the Dark Ages to the Renaissance of the 1300’s. (Dark Ages = ~900 years.)
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