Could AI Help Create New Prodigy Episodes in the Future?

[Mudd]

It already has a place in commerce, and most of the art you attend to - like, say Star Trek - is commercial art which uses those tools.

You can't tell "by looking at the hands," you know.

 

[Ragitsu]

When most folk encounter a landfill, they steer clear; others advocate for a swan dive.

 

[Mudd]

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[Ragitsu]

That "look" is just repulsive on an instinctive level.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

The uncanny valley is real.

 

[Mudd]

The uncanny valley is real.

It's a real aspect of perception and perspective, yes.

 

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[Mudd]

Michael Caine’s AI Clone Voices ‘The Odyssey’ Audiobook For ElevenLabs

Michael Caine‘s AI clone has voiced an audiobook version of Homer’s poem, alongside a full cast of other AI voices and music.

The adaptation is available for free on the ElevenReader from ElevenLabs, the AI audio company that counts Matthew McConaughey among its investors.

Caine, famed for roles in The Dark Knight and The Italian Job, partnered with ElevenLabs last year to clone his voice. The replica will be used in the 13-hour “cinematic” production, which took six-weeks to produce.

“The Odyssey is one of the greatest stories ever told. For nearly three millennia, its themes of perseverance, loyalty, temptation, and the enduring call of home have resonated across cultures and generations,” Caine said.

 

[Set Harth]

Caine should have just done it himself for the 13 hours!

 

[Ragitsu]

Puke with a sheen of gloss is still puke.

 

[Mudd]

Puke with a sheen of gloss is still puke.

I'll take your word for that one. Haven't made a study of it.

Caine should have just done it himself for the 13 hours!

He probably couldn't stay awake.

 

[Ragitsu]

I do not respect advocacy for Sturgeon's Law - or, more accurately, the acceleration of such through algorithms - whether an individual's efforts are pro bono or otherwise.

 

[Ragitsu]

Doss will doss.

 

[thribs]

It could but it would take a lot of work.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

The only thing I want AI to do is clean my house and wash my clothes, I want human-created entertainment.

 

[Mudd]

And you evidently want it served up by the same mega-corporations who are moving on to different ways of accomplishing their aims. Most people who make movies want to make movies. But they do it on the dime of people who want to make a lot of money rather than a little.

They're contractors and/or employees, not artistes. And they're the ones who'll take it in the necks. Already are.

You? You'll always be able to find plenty to watch. AI is not the death of art, or even of popular art. It is very likely, however, going to decimate* employment opportunities for creatives in the big commercial spaces.

You know, rock music and its antecedents, as one example, were not always big business making millionaires of composers and performers.** Art has flourished throughout history without often having been a particularly broad and open avenue to making fortunes, or even a decent living. Although if we lose those opportunities, it'll be a shame.

*"Decimate" is a kind and conservative understatement of the impact.
**And, well, music companies kind of have tried to keep it that way where the artists are concerned.

 

[Ragitsu]

In all fairness, there ought to be a steaming pile of feces atop the box, because that is the argument being made. In a way, it would be uniquely artistic: something so filthy lifted up by a symbol of cleanliness.