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So let’s say in 10 years they have the processing power to generate full movies on demand. OpenAI trains its model on all movies from IMDB. Then I ask ChatGPT to produce a movie « like » avengers but with the faces of all my friends. And I just pay the 20$ fee (or 200$ by then) to OpenAI and watch my movie. Then I can ask to tweak some parts of the story and update the movie in real time. And this for any movie. Given the budget of 220 millions for the one movie I quoted, OpenAI will never give back anything money to them. Or to any movie producer.

Does that seems ok to you ? Today it’s the books and pictures but later it’s going to be anything.

I mean to produce anything it requires time, effort, money. They steal the end result, and produce any variation possible and make money out of it.

Your point would only be valid if OpenAI would be 100% free. It’s not

And then obviously no-one will spend $220 million on a movie anymore because, hey, we can just use generative AI. So I guess subsequent AIs will be based on the outputs of a previous AI? Or will all movies from a certain point onwards be wholly based on a corpus of existing movies used for training? Maybe AI companies will start shooting small film segments in meatspace just for the purpose of training or providing some base input to their models?

The future is gonna be weird, yo.

Isn't that what they are already doing but with human writers? Screenwriting is mostly just a formula. Aside from being cheaper, I don't see any difference in terms of quality.

> Does that seems ok to you ? Today it’s the books and pictures but later it’s going to be anything.

When they're that good, I might finally finish the novel I started writing in… ugh, 2016.

A quote comes to mind, though:

"I say 'your' civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization, which is of course what this is all about."

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