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I love this! But after trying it a few times I got this result :). So fascinating.

https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/the-terminator

Brings up the age-old question of how much the learning in these models is just memorization. Though in cases like these it’s hard to tell.

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Yep, that's because GPT-3 was trained on real existing data, and it's quite a challenge to make sure the story plot is 100% fake. When it's too close from an existing film, it just sometimes gives it the same film title. I have in-between GPT-3 prompts to avoid that as much as possible, but sometimes real movie titles slips through the cracks. Something I hope to improve shortly.

What a great project, you absolute legend!

Given Hollywood's proclivity to remake everything on a 20-year cycle, it seems completely appropriate to get a 2023 Terminator reboot in a 1920's style.

Here's "The Terminator by F.W. Murnau" from Stable Diffusion:

https://ibb.co/RN5bxJb

It also seems completely appropriate for The Terminator to be written, directed, and acted by an AI.

There are only so many stories to tell. The Terminator is a rehash of so many other previous stories. The real art is in putting it together so that it seems new and fresh and gets people exited about it. The Terminator 1920s style looks interesting.

> The Terminator is a rehash of so many other previous stories.

I know what you mean, but I also laughed at that.

"I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye." - Jack Handey

If a story is a rehash of "many" stories, then it's actually a new story. Similar to how an "Airbnb but for dog walkers" isn't actually a ripoff of Airbnb, but is in fact an original idea.

Yeah, just got: https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/the-legend-of-zelda-...

It's crazy that it just made up those names...

Since the generated output is so close to the training data, the model is probably overfitted and trained with too few data...

Note to mention "In the Land of Oz: The Search for the Wizard":

https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/in-the-land-of-oz-th...

Which reads like a bad translation of a bad translation. Like the the old joke about the AI program which was supposed to translate "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" from English to Russian to English, and after the roundtrip came up with "The vodka is good but the meat is rotten."

Not sure how I feel about an AI generating a movie concept that involves a "rise of the machines".

I feel like "generate" is kind of a strong word in this case though. At this rate if the machines rise up, they will do so just to parrot all the "machines rise up" plot synopses in their training corpus.

Here’s another Terminator one: https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/terminator-war-of-th...

Common, this is genius. Plot reads: in 2154 a soldier from the future is send back in time to the present.

Why send a soldier from the present to the past when you can also have a soldier from the future send to the past!

I got this on my 4th try or so: https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/alice-in-wonderland

The same could technically be said about Disney which is just remaking their entire classical collection but with CGI.

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