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posted by janrinok on Tuesday February 27 2024, @08:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the money-money-money dept.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/i-just-dont-see-how-we-survive-tyler-perry-issues-hollywood-warning-over-ai-video-tech/

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Thursday, filmmaker Tyler Perry spoke about his concerns related to the impact of AI video synthesis on entertainment industry jobs. In particular, he revealed that he has suspended a planned $800 million expansion of his production studio after seeing what OpenAI's recently announced AI video generator Sora can do.

"I have been watching AI very closely," Perry said in the interview. "I was in the middle of, and have been planning for the last four years... an $800 million expansion at the studio, which would've increased the backlot a tremendous size—we were adding 12 more soundstages. All of that is currently and indefinitely on hold because of Sora and what I'm seeing. I had gotten word over the last year or so that this was coming, but I had no idea until I saw recently the demonstrations of what it's able to do. It's shocking to me."

[...] "It makes me worry so much about all of the people in the business," he told The Hollywood Reporter. "Because as I was looking at it, I immediately started thinking of everyone in the industry who would be affected by this, including actors and grip and electric and transportation and sound and editors, and looking at this, I'm thinking this will touch every corner of our industry."

You can read the full interview at The Hollywood Reporter

[...] Perry also looks beyond Hollywood and says that it's not just filmmaking that needs to be on alert, and he calls for government action to help retain human employment in the age of AI. "If you look at it across the world, how it's changing so quickly, I'm hoping that there's a whole government approach to help everyone be able to sustain."

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday February 27 2024, @09:04PM (9 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 27 2024, @09:04PM (#1346542) Journal

    Is it just me or is there very little new these days that is interesting or entertaining?

    I rarely find new movies that I care to see. A few. But not many.

    Maybe there are only so many story tropes, and we've used them all up. Any new story can be recognized as all of one, or a remix of several prior stories.

    Some movies are end-to-end Eye Popping special effects with a little bit of a story plot added.

    Don't even get me started on Series of Episodes. What seems to happen: It starts out great. Interesting. Spins out story lines. Sometimes the story lines get outlandish enough you don't know how they will make it pay off, and they either don't or can't. Or they just abandon story lines they began and never mention them again. In other words, it's all short term focused. What can we do in THIS episode to top our LAST episode and its ratings? No real interest in making it deeply entertaining, with a middle and ending of the story. So it either gets cancelled (sometimes on a cliffhanger), or it ends with a fizzle, possibly with many loose ends they did not bother to tie up.

    After many years, I just won't start watching a series until it has gone several seasons and appears to be interesting and I hear good things about it.

    Two examples:

    The Expanse. This started out good. Second season was good but different. As it progressed, I wondered if it would end well. Each season was seriously different. The ending was okay, but not spectacular. Sadly, this is probably better than most other series.

    Upload. Again, this starts out great. First season is great and leaves you wanting more. Second season is good. Leaves you wanting more. Then of course, long gaps in production due to covid. Now I'm beginning to wonder if they have any actual intent on bringing the story to an end. Will they actually ever resolve the major plot element that begins in the first episode? I think I've lost interest already. They're spending too much time now on playing tropes they started, and were good, but are now getting tiring and repetitive. Corporate greed and malice. Mediocrity. Selfishness and shallowness of people. Etc. These are relatable to a point. But they've worn these out.

    I don't even want to start any series made by Netflix. It is sure to be cancelled with no conclusion.

    As for movies. I've found some I really liked. But not that many. Back in the 80s and early 90s I abandoned TV and went to the movies most nights of the week after work when I was young, single and had a pocket full of money.

    I can't say I'm surprised that young people now find lots of other entertainment. Online. Video games. Cosplay. Short-form video (eg, "short attention span theater")

    Can AI actually do any worse?

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  • (Score: 2) by Tork on Tuesday February 27 2024, @09:36PM (2 children)

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 27 2024, @09:36PM (#1346547)

    Is it just me or is there very little new these days that is interesting or entertaining?

    That question comes up every few years. Yes, there is plenty. The reason it doesn't seem like it is it comes in waves instead of as a steady stream. My wife and I have a few old shows we keep around (Supernatural, for example...) to fill in the blanks in-between seasons. Here's a few shows my wife and I have been enjoying the last couple of years:
    - Strange New Worlds / Lower Decks / Prodigy / Discovery. (pick up to two....)
    - Twisted Metal (i wish someone told me sooner it was a comedy)
    - Hello Tomorrow
    - Ted Lasso
    - Fall of the House of Usher
    - Succession
    - Doom Patrol
    - Umbrella Academy
    - Futurama (I think we're getting two new seasons)
    - Disenchantment. (I believe this one wrapped)
    - Resident Alien
    - Orville (this one is polarizing, im personally not a fan but it's popular in my circles)
    - One Piece (recent addition to Netflix, not referring to the anime .. tho it is good too and has a zillion eps)
    - Avatar the Last Airbender (JUST came out on Netflix...)
    - A number of Star Wars shows relating to Mandalorian. I have not watched Andor yet but that one has been recommended by my buddies a LOT.
    - not Book of Boba Fett
    - Loki (my personal fave of the whole list)
    - Last Week Tonight and Daily Show. (technically that's two but I don't know anybody that likes one but not the other.)

    I feel like I'm forgetting a couple of big ones, but you get the idea. I really liked WandaVision and Ms Marvel, too, but I don't get the sense those went over well here. Gah I feel like 2 seconds after I post I'll remember a couple of big omissions.

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    • (Score: 2) by epitaxial on Tuesday February 27 2024, @09:43PM

      by epitaxial (3165) on Tuesday February 27 2024, @09:43PM (#1346549)

      I watched the latest Futurama season and it wasn't good. Jokes about voodoo curing covid and one episode is a 30 minute joke about crypto.

      The new Star Trek series might be a bit too much for this crowd though. Any more than one token black person in their show is too much.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by hendrikboom on Wednesday February 28 2024, @01:00AM

      by hendrikboom (1125) on Wednesday February 28 2024, @01:00AM (#1346579) Homepage Journal

      One that caught my interest is Dharmakshetra. Remember the Mahabharata? The longest poem ever written? About a major war in Indian mythology that destroyed pretty well everything? (Hint: the Bhaghavad Gita is a small part of it).
      Well, Dharmakshetra happens in the afterlife. It's a kind of judicial review determining whether the proper ethics of war were followed during the war.
      Fascinating stuff. And the more you know about the original mythology, the more you'll get out of it.
      I ended up downloading the Project Gutenberg translation of the Mahabharata to learn more about the underlying mythology.

      I watch Dharmakshetra on Netflix in small doses. It can be intense.

  • (Score: 2) by epitaxial on Tuesday February 27 2024, @09:39PM

    by epitaxial (3165) on Tuesday February 27 2024, @09:39PM (#1346548)

    I thoroughly enjoyed all of the various Mike Flanagan series, Haunting Of Hill House, Midnight Mass, etc. They're all self contained except for Midnight Club which is based on young adult fiction.

  • (Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2024, @11:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2024, @11:05PM (#1346563)

    I rarely find new movies that I care to see. A few. But not many

    The Sturgeon's law wasn't repelled as yet, ...

    Is it just me or is there very little new these days that is interesting or entertaining?

    ... so have you tried, say, pornhub? :large-grin:

  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday February 27 2024, @11:24PM

    by Freeman (732) on Tuesday February 27 2024, @11:24PM (#1346566) Journal

    I read all of the Expanse books and watched the entire series. Aside from some annoyances with how they portrayed some characters, it was rather well done. They even killed off the pilot, instead of the soldier. Which still worked and I was okay with. What they did, was not finish the series. All things considered, the Book Series ends kind of weird. You're probably better off with how the film series ended (like there should be more), instead of the actual ending. (Not that some of the missing content wasn't great.)

    Spoiler for the book series ending:


    The reason why they can do faster than light travel with the portals is, because you are traveling through a giant squid/octopus space alien from an alternate dimension. In other words magic. Also, the "bad guy" that they were setting up at the end, tries to kill said Alien and nearly destroys humanity in the process. I forget exactly how it ends, it was that bad and I'm not inclined to re-read the giant space magic stupidness that they forced in the end. It's cringe like that meme "I'm not saying it was Aliens, but it was Aliens." Except use magic instead. 'cause we're already operating on the assumption that there's aliens in the book universe. The series was also co-authored, not written by one person. Which is interesting.

    I recently re-watched The Expanse series. When I got to the end of it, I was like, where's the other book or two?!? Then, I remembered that the book series ended horribly and was kind of sad that I had re-watched the series.
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    Also "The Wheel of Time" series is literally being brutalized by Amazon. Assuming you've read the books and remember anything about them, then don't watch the series. It is horrible. So far, they've destroyed Matt and Perrin's characters. Egwene's character they were trying to spin as an option to be "the one, if you've read the books you'll know what I mean". They trashed the magic system, made Lan look weak, and added a lovers spat between Moiraine and Siuan. For every one thing they got right, they changed 4 things and got them all wrong. I could accept some changes, but instead what they've essentially created is their own loose interpretation of "The Wheel of Time" story. Which so far is about as bad of a book to movie series as I've ever seen.

    In the two above series, it felt like they were trying to "empower women" or whatever, but instead they just screwed the characters up. The Expanse less so, but still somewhat. The Wheel of Time, it's like they read the same books and decided that Egwene was a weak princess. When in fact, she's one of the strongest characters in the book series.
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    The ring of power series is also pretty good. While perhaps not as good as the original movie series, it's not bad.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Snotnose on Wednesday February 28 2024, @12:45AM

    by Snotnose (1623) on Wednesday February 28 2024, @12:45AM (#1346577)

    The writers and producers have plenty of good ideas, but unless the studio thinks it will be a blockbuster it won't get greenlit.

    Like a lot of other ills in todays world I blame Wall Street.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by gtomorrow on Wednesday February 28 2024, @07:42AM

    by gtomorrow (2230) on Wednesday February 28 2024, @07:42AM (#1346610)

    Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.

    from everybody's favorite manual on the future, 1984, George Orwell.

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by mhajicek on Wednesday February 28 2024, @08:51AM

    by mhajicek (51) on Wednesday February 28 2024, @08:51AM (#1346618)

    I think a big part of the problem is that the shows are scattered over too many exclusive streaming services. There is no one place (or even three places) you can go to see everything good. For me, if it's not on one of the services we have, it may as well not exist. I'm too lazy to keep switching services.

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