So AI can construct a poor story.
That's about all that it can construct, in fact. In great detail.
So AI can construct a poor story.
Also, again, please remember that every single text produced by these programs is a work of plagiarism. That alone outweighs any opinions about the quality of the work. Stealing should be off the table, full stop. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opi...gpt-are-built-on-mass-copyright-infringement/
Exactly how does it mean "interesting things for what is in development for Trek?" If the writer's strike goes on long enough, there won't be any onscreen Trek content for a while except for Lower Decks. And we won't even get that if the actors and directors go on strike.I'm cheering for these strikes to go on for a long while.
It may mean interesting things for what is in development for Trek.
Hopefully Directors and Actors are next.
Yes.. I'm sure they'll cancel everything, fire Kurtzman and turn everything over to Terry Matalas...I'm cheering for these strikes to go on for a long while.
It may mean interesting things for what is in development for Trek.
Hopefully Directors and Actors are next.
I believe this is wishful thinking at its finest, trying to will it in to existence.Yes.. I'm sure they'll cancel everything, fire Kurtzman and turn everything over to Terry Matalas...
(Yeah right
) If anyone[ believes that, I want a dose of the drug you're obviously on as I could use a good break from reality./SPOILER]
This has me curious about the 80's strike. We know they dug out old Phase II scripts, but who rewrote them to be about the Next Gen casts?
And if it was acceptable to do that then, what's stopping them digging out one of their dozens of unmade Trek movie scripts and adapting that?
One reason it’s funny is that AI as it currently exists—that is, “large language model” programs like ChatGPT—only appears “free” or even “cheap” because it is being heavily subsidized by investors and tech companies that hope to eventually pass along the costs of training and operating these programs to clients like, say, large film and television studios. LLMs require millions of dollars to develop and train, and they operate on incredibly expensive, power-hungry hardware. Replacing a screenwriter with AI to “save money” is like cutting out your daily Starbucks but buying a $25,000 La Marzocco espresso machine, if the La Marzocco was also bad at making espresso, but could, with careful human assistance, produce beverages that resemble espresso.
Because that is the other funny thing about the notion of replacing writers with AI: The kind of software we are using that label on is incredibly ill-suited to the task of producing creative work. Large language models (as I learned when we did an episode on them for the podcast I co-host for The New Republic) are essentially paraphrasing machines mixed with predictive text. Because they are designed to produce strings of words based on strings of words they have been trained on, but without overtly plagiarizing, they are quite good at lying, but terrible at surprising. They are designed to produce book reports, not books.
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But for the most part, professional writing is just not what AI is good at, and, hype aside, there’s little reason to be hopeful it’ll get much better very quickly. For some reason, when the C-suite class imagines what professions will be automated by LLM AI, they keep naming ones (teacher, therapist) that do actually require the use of language as a tool of understanding and communication, rather than a space-filler.
Lower Decks, and Prodigy. Plus season 2 of SNW.Exactly how does it mean "interesting things for what is in development for Trek?" If the writer's strike goes on long enough, there won't be any onscreen Trek content for a while except for Lower Decks. And we won't even get that if the actors and directors go on strike.
Yes, I was more referring to long term. IE, if the strike isn't resolved in time for next year's programming. Though, I guess Disco S5 should be good to go next year.Lower Decks, and Prodigy. Plus season 2 of SNW.
This is an existential fight for the survival of the industry as we know it. If the execs like Zaslav get their way, things will never go back to normal. We'll end up with terrible, cheap TV and movies churned out by mindless text algorithms.
Cool.The dumber corporates like Zaslav and Chapek threatening to bring down the US entertainment industry as we know it out of petty spite will just create a vacuum for India, Britain, and South Korean entertainment industries to fill.
Corporate America is regressing.
Cool.
Oh no, it's a complete travesty of greed. But the summary by the other poster makes it sound like just another day at the beach. It states things with little sympathy. I responded in kind.Not for the many people who are in danger of losing their careers.
But the summary by the other poster makes it sound like just another day at the beach. It states things with little sympathy.
Fair enough. I don't see the anger. Just statements of fact.That wasn't how it seemed to me. I took TedShatner10's comments as an expression of agreement with my cautionary statement, and of anger toward the self-destructive stupidity of the executives.
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