Topic: The screen actors Guild is seeking a strike against video game companies

@EaglyBird
One of Baudrillaud's ideas was that the physical, tangible product is of no consequence. It is only what it represents that matters. Therefore its significance is the only thing needed. Just create the buzz around it, without creating the product. Or at the very least, a product devoid of any intrinsic value

@jump
I've now got the idea in my head of an AI-written and directed Star Wars film, and the fans are still not happy with it

Upon seeing this topic, the thought of a writers or VA strike in video games was a bit dismal.

But, then I remembered I could use a break to work on my backlog.
And also, half the games I buy are ports or rereleases of previous games.
And then again, I play mostly Japan-produced games anyway.

So I’m good! Strike away I say. Anything to delay our AI overlords’ ascendency, if even a little.

I genuinely think that people have kinda overblown the impact AI will have. Of course some types of work will disappear and some will be augmented. But at the end of the day what we're talking about is data-set in, prompt, prediction out. Ultimately you still need a set of training data and you still need someone to create the prompts and prune/refine the output

I think the future doesn't quite result in the death of acting or writing as a profession. I think it does reduce the amount of work required but not kill it entirely. I mean games are a bit of an interesting one given it's an interactive media. You might want to have some form of generative dialogue. But even then the way you'd go about it would probably be more like, a writer comes up with a set of lines and variations for a subset of in-game states. Then you train a model on that conversion of states to lines. You then get a voice actor in to read a subset of lines that you create a voice model out of

So of course, 100%, this will change the way that this whole thing operates. And at the low-quality end there will be some that will try and cut costs at the expense of quality. But I don't think it's the end of the line for writers and actors. It's more along the lines of the transition from practical to digital effects. Of course practical effects jobs became less in demand but they didn't disappear and digital effects aren't just this "push button and thing comes out" magic

Infairness I don’t think Star Wars fans are capable of happiness, they have been especially unhappy ever since all the inter family loving was removed from the films. I bet an AI bot would have included that with how popular it is now on the internet webs.

I’m also 99% sure Stranger Things is the result of asking a chatbot to tell you a Stephen King story.

Random but it reminds me of a mate who’s does half practical effects and half CGI effects. His last job was working on Gladiator 2, the team he usually works with are normally in the UK however as it was being filmed in Morocco the practical effects team all moved to Morocco for 5 months (paid for including everyday expenses by the production) whilst he was the only member of the team told he wasn’t needed to come over since he was doing digital stuff so he worked on the movie from his flat whilst watching the WhatsApp group post messages of how they are living it up in their spare time including a production delay of a month when there was no work to do but still being paid.

@EaglyBird
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_value

I think for me, it is concern rather than fear in this instance; fear and legislation for me create bigoted laws. However, it is definitely something to ponder.

Hey AI: Sally (a girl) has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. How many sisters does Sally have?

@EaglyBird
Late response, but yes you could say the terms, "rational fear" and "concern" are interchangeable in this context.
One doesn't fear asbestos as such (run away!! It's the asbestos!!), but you would have a concern about it being found in a building, and if that building requires necessary changes, as is happening in the UK at the moment.

Do I get a gold star for knowing the correct answer?

I always like the riddle about the girl who goes to her mother’s funeral and see’s a mysterious man she doesn’t know, the next day she kills her sister. Why?

@jump
Yes

The only two answers I can think of for your riddle are:

• She's killing all her relatives (just because) and the mysterious man is a red herring;
• it's a domestic version of The Thing

@Rambler it is a question often put to serial killers and psychopaths who get it correct. I got it correct when I first heard it so yay me!

That is some romantic stuff right there!

"The things I do for love!" - Courage

Is that like the premise for the next Hugh Grant / Andi McDowell film?

Edit: Duh, that film can be called Four Funerals and a Wedding - why I didn't think of that before...

@Zuljaras @Rambler it doesn’t have to be about her wanting D, she could just be curious about the mystery of the man. The question is more about looking for the cold hard logic and how expendable she views someone’s life like how murdering psychopaths do.

In any case we need to ask the script writing AI bots to take a break from writing the next Marvel and Minions films to ask them this question to see if they are likely to go Skynet on us!

@jump Love(romantic) =/= wanting the "vitamin" D (in some cases). Maybe it is other(not so healthy) affectionate feeling like Harley Quinn and the Joker Like you said she is ready to waste someone just to see her target.

Btw Skynet is not that far if AI bots are starting to lie just to make you fill the CAPTCHA for them

At least Spiderman 2 won't be affected by the strike.

@EaglyBird
Probably, but at least the main game will be fine. Plus its hard to justify spending money on DLC when the game itself is already $70.

@EaglyBird
I'm to impatient to wait for the game to go on sale. Although that is by far the best way to go about things.