I say LLMs instead of "AI" in the quote because that's marketing shit and it's a lie and I reject it.

Of course King Bazinga is so treatbrained that he wants the complete absence of artists from what he thinks is art because they might wokescold him and make him uncomfortable while inhaling infinite slop.

I suppose for sheer absurd/surreal/horror novelty, we might get something like this, though.

https://i.imgur.com/c4LWjge.mp4

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        1 year ago

        Virtually every Sitcom is some mealy mouthed liberal bullshit of the era. The Jeffersons was Woke. I Love Lucy was Woke. You Can't Take It with You was Woke. Shakespeare was Woke. Its all Woke. Nothing these people watch shy of a minstral show will qualify as less than Liberal Media, and even that shit will fail to pass whatever the racist version of the Bechdel Test is at some point.

        • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          whatever the racist version of the Bechdel Test is

          Two black side characters having a conversation specifically about helping a white main character

    • Infamousblt [any]
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      1 year ago

      No see I would write "Write an entire script for an entire season of this show except make sure it has no woke". So it would be literally perfect!

  • buckykat [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    A copy of a copy of a copy slop that pushes fanservice buttons is exactly what studio execs are looking for

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Corporations are only bad when they are woke by maybe doing an insincere performative gesture like two women kissing in an editable background. billionaire-tears

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
    hexagon
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    1 year ago

    The anime industry is already in a creative rut when it comes to the increasingly specific and narrow demands of the big spenders that buy the merch that want even more "ego insert bland asshole wakes up in fanservice world and conquers it like a video game with extra sexy sex" pandering that will likely only get more specific and narrow in its concentrated pandering, a bit like fruit being replaced by sugar until that is then phased out in favor of high fructose corn syrup.

    I can only imagine the hedonic treadmill sprints that LLM-driven infinite hogslop will provide for increasingly alienated consumers. desolate

    • buckykat [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      My favorite animes of last season were: 1) a salarywoman whose cat is a six foot tall not very anthropomorphic asexual house husband, and 2) A mystery story where Japanese mythology creatures meet Sherlock Holmes and the league of extraordinary gentlemen.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        There is still good stuff out there, yes.

        My concern is about the gradually tightening line-must-go-up capitalistic choke-hold on more and more of the industry's primary resource channels, the ones that get increasingly narrow and focused otaku/weeb pandering mandates year by year because those are the people buying the merch.

  • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    People say this assuming that LLMs are not already used in the industry to create the outlines for scripts, with either 'woke' or 'bazinga' moments interspersed depending on what the target demographic is.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      People say this like script templates and tropes and genres haven't existed for centuries.

      Take the Sitcom or the Soap Opera. You can find parallels that map out practically frame to frame - from the placement of furniture to the stage direction of actors to the cadence of speech - between Fresh Prince and Cosby Show or Dick Van Dyke and Married With Children. We've never needed a LLM for that before. What we needed was experienced professional directors and producers.

      That's long before you get into the idea of Wokeness, particularly when its coming from the mouths of people who were in diapers when "Look Whose Coming To Dinner" first premiered. The fucking criticisms are a copy of a copy of a copy at this point. Archie Bunker was doing a parody of these nerds before they were a twinkle in their mother's eye.

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      1 year ago

      I don't think the technology is there, or really even necessary at this stage. It's not hard for a human to write bad TV. It's a lot harder for a machine to do it.

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        I can absolutely see that. But I have also worked with enough executives to know that if somebody under them doesn't shoot it down, they are bazingaed enough to believe the hype and try to use it where it is now, even if it is more actual work.

  • muddi [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j4Ph02gzqmY

    It's hypocritical, isn't it? They criticize postmodernism (mistaking it for postmodernity) as removing truth and meaning from art and society. But they push postmodernity into overdrive as soon as they sniff some truth and meaning in their treats.

    Even trips have some meaning hidden in them. The generated slop is more like a fever dream to me

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Even trips have some meaning hidden in them.

      For thousands of years and almost certainly before recorded history, people have tripped out to find hidden meanings in their lives.

      It actually disturbs me just how much the treatbrained reactionary consumer wants to strip meaning from anything they consume.

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    All you need is lurid bullshit stitched together with a Hero's Journey and you're golden for B-tier "prestige" fantasy shows.

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Shows have become too formulaic, so we're going to solve this by using a giant formula to create shows instead.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      I think there really isn't cognitive dissonance with these reactionary treat gobblers there: they want infinite awooga libertarian-alert hypersus and the more "historically accurate" us-foreign-policy it is, the less "woke" they see it as being.