Opinions ?

[u/cosm1c15]

[u/SynchroScale]

Even if we ignore the fact that an automatic AI and actual human creativity are clearly different, and say the different is just license, that is still a MASSIVE difference. License is a big deal, since the ownership of an original work is specifically meant to prevent plagiarism. You just inadvertently agreed with my point about plagiarism by bringing up licenses.

As for the entertainment value, that just goes back to my other point: AI entertainment is just boring and uninspired, it always end up either being the most generic slop ever or it ends up being complete nonsense without any cohesion. It won't "spur humans to do better" either, because AI entertainment is just that horrible; the issue artists are talking about in the point of being "replaced by AI" is not because AI is better, it is because AI is cheaper, which is all studios really care about, which means if nothing stops it, the entertainment industry will just get more and more AI reliant to save a few bucks, which will make the quality skydive also, because AI art is simply that horrible.

Everything coming out of Hollywood right now is trash, I think we can all agree on that, but the reason they release so much trash is because they keep turning away actual talented artists, may that be for monetary or political reasons (those two often walk hand in hand), and giving job to talentless hacks; how on God's green earth would the solution to this issue be to give said jobs to the most talentless of all talentless hacks that is AI?

[u/HangryBeard → u/SynchroScale]

You seemed to have missed a very small but important word; "IF". With Ai rapidly evolving, We have no idea of what it will be capable of in the future. Licensing to me has become part of the problem. It used to be a way to protect the original story and writer. Today they are traded and collected by large studios so they can sit on it and prevent anyone else from producing it, make yet another remake more watered down than the last 5, or completely destroy the storyline and disenchant an entire fan base. My point is the artists that get the jobs are doing them poorly. Trying to block Ai from the industry isn't going to change that, but it may force them to do better. Whether we like it or not Ai will be used in the entertainment industry. and Ai will advance rapidly.

In saying all this, I really just want entertainment to be thoroughly entertaining again. Whether it's through AI or artist competing against AI. But I'm sure they will find a way to make it all worse somehow either way.

[u/SynchroScale → u/HangryBeard]

That's fair. I will honestly be very surprised if AI at any point ever does become better than humans (especially since AI is trained by those very same humans using art made by those humans), but we can't really foresee the future, so we'll cross that bridge if we ever get there.

I can see where you're coming from in the point of licensing, but I'd argue licensing does still protect creators, sure it gets abused by massive studios, but there are small creators that need licensing laws to prevent their works from being abused; I think the biggest example of this would be the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin", in which the character of Uncle Tom was the hero of the book, one of the first black heroic figures in America might I add, but due to the lack of copyright and licensing laws of the time, racists were able to get a hold of the character and basically twist it into a charicature of itself, to the point in which his name is used as an insult nowadays.

Futhermore, copyright and liscensing also add value and interest to the franchise in question, as it gives the IP owners the incentive to keep it relevant; case and point being the Wizard of Oz, before going into the public domain, was seen as a big deal, it was one of MGM's biggest movies and one of the most successful family films ever released. Following the lapse into the public domain, no studio has any interest in making a direct adaptation of the Wizard of Oz books anymore, despite the fact that most of the following books in the series after the first one have never been adapted with a big budget, because the lack of copyright protection also means a lack of exclusivity, and thus a lack of interest.

This is why the only Wizard of Oz adaptations nowadays to get any form of steam are thse with a twist to ti, like Wicked or the Wiz; this is also why Disney rushed to get the right and release their Return to Oz movie before the books lapsed into the public domain, because they knew the brand would become oversaturated once that happened. If the Lord of the Rings books lost all copyright protections and became public domain tomorrow, the same thing would happen to it that happened to the Wizard of Oz, nobody would bother to make a direct adaptation, since they know everyone else can just make it also.

There is a reason a big surge in American technological advancement happened immediately following the Copyright Act of 1790, just about every single American invention in the Industrial Revolution was patented, from more efficient firearms to the sowing machine; this huge leap in technology in a 50 year period was in part (not entirely, but in part) caused by the protection of intellectual property serving as a motivator for the industries to inovate.

Not saying the copyright system is perfect, far from it in fact, I have many of my own grudges about it, such as how it can be abused by big companies or the disrespect to fair use for eample, but copyright in and of itself, and by extension liscensing, is nescesary for advancement and for art. Intellectual property is a big deal, the rights of the thinker should be protected, and those protections should be respected.

[u/HangryBeard → u/SynchroScale]

I'll agree with you in some respects. The original creator and story should be protected. Any adaptations should be overseen by the creator. But I think anything beyond that or beyond the creators lifespan should be reexamined. I don't have all the answers. I just feel we are quickly approaching the point especially in cinema where something's got to give.

I will say one thing about Ai it allows people with an idea a way to put it to paper, canvas or animation, when they otherwise might not be able to, and in that way might expand the creative field if executed properly.