First of all, amazing article; congrats. A couple of notes:
I think that there is one point of "scale" you are not considering, and that is the investment put on creating a video, series, or movie: if you want to take an AO3-made fanfinction in a regular way, you have to pay the staff, the actors, HBO, the locations (my god, those locations...). Affleck´s way is more like "prompt a story. You don't like it? Fuck it, do another one." Plus, you are talking about a scale you do not have in AO3: Mike Tyson livestream a week ago was seen by 53 million people in one night. That is 5x, Monacle´s IN A DAY.
"We have got to stop trying to find creative uses for AI that puts the onus of responsibility around protecting the creativity and quality of our art on developers. There are useful cases for artificial intelligence in the entertainment industry, but these are productivity tools designed to help with behind-the-scenes work. Finding scenes faster for editors, helping to craft more effective storyboards for the first draft, etc. It’s not to take the passion, expertise, and love that fans have for a title and hand it over to a tool to create." AMEN TO THIS
First of all, amazing article; congrats. A couple of notes:
I think that there is one point of "scale" you are not considering, and that is the investment put on creating a video, series, or movie: if you want to take an AO3-made fanfinction in a regular way, you have to pay the staff, the actors, HBO, the locations (my god, those locations...). Affleck´s way is more like "prompt a story. You don't like it? Fuck it, do another one." Plus, you are talking about a scale you do not have in AO3: Mike Tyson livestream a week ago was seen by 53 million people in one night. That is 5x, Monacle´s IN A DAY.
"We have got to stop trying to find creative uses for AI that puts the onus of responsibility around protecting the creativity and quality of our art on developers. There are useful cases for artificial intelligence in the entertainment industry, but these are productivity tools designed to help with behind-the-scenes work. Finding scenes faster for editors, helping to craft more effective storyboards for the first draft, etc. It’s not to take the passion, expertise, and love that fans have for a title and hand it over to a tool to create." AMEN TO THIS
Great article again... Keep it coming.
Nico
this was so good -- found myself not just nodding but actually exclaiming "f*ck yes" while I read
This literally means so much coming from you!! Thank you, NC!