Jay • any pronouns • 22 • mostly art and writing with some other fun posts thrown in! Currently on a The Untamed kick (@perrikara on other platforms, commissions [OPEN])
this is so not at all how it works that it honestly pains me to see so many people in agreement with it.
First: an AI is not a robot. Most programs called AI can’t do anything to affect the physical world. Those that can are purpose-built for something specific. Affecting data is monumentally simpler than affecting physical objects for a computer program; for all the work it’s taken to get here, screenwriting is an easier task (computationally speaking) than cleaning the ocean.
Second: AI image classifiers theoetically could be used for detecting trash for removal from the ocean, but conventional methods just plain work better for the time being. You don’t use MS Word when you need an arc welder. They’re not only different tools, they’re entirely different classes of tools.
Third: not even remotely ‘all robots’ are being used as screenwriters. There is no scarcity of AI labor. Studios can use AI to fuck over writers without costing anything to doctors using AI to identify cancer cells.
I get the frustration around its usage by hollywood and etc. to try and reduce/remove reliance on human writers despite that AI produced plotlines are categorically dogshit. But this type of take demonstrably does not understand the possibility space nor the constraints of the problem, so to speak. If AI could pick plastic out of the ocean - which is infeasible if not impossible - it would. That would not hinder it from also producing garbage screenplays.
Jay • any pronouns • 22 • mostly art and writing with some other fun posts thrown in! Currently on a The Untamed kick (@perrikara on other platforms, commissions [OPEN])
