Traditional media is finding it tough to rekindle that spark to capture interest in their efforts these days.
( How many no longer bother to go to the movie theater these days ? )
I mean, do I really want to go see the Nth remake of Batman ? . . . . . no not really )
It has become so expensive to produce / finance a movie, video game or streaming media series that they're
refusing to push the envelope and try anything new and, instead, resorting the the same old storylines, tropes,
and algorithms that made them money in the past.
Thus, the reason we're up to Star Wars 13, Scream 7, Super Hero movie eleventy nine, yet another Zombie
movie and who knows how many Marios, Zeldas, Call of Duty, Assasins Creed and Final Fantasy games that keep
getting churned out.
I recently watched an animated ( anime style ) short made by AI and I was hard pressed to tell the difference
in animation / image quality from traditional methods. Not only was it made very quickly, it was made at a
fraction of the cost with the same level of quality.
I recently listened to a few AI generated songs and the end result was the same. I picked up on a few minor
mispronunciations of the lyrics, but it is easily fixed and can easily compete with any song on the radio today.
Two of the AI covers sounded better than the originals did :|
Here's the important part: They were all good enough I would pay for them. . . . . .
( Hell, most music is so digitially processed, compressed and sampled anymore can you even call it original ? )
What I've seen in recent days is AI generated animation and music being done at a quality level easily on par with
current standards of human counterparts, but at a fraction of the speed and cost.
This alone should terrify traditional media companies because they just can't afford to keep doing it the old way.
That is already apparent in the runaway budgets of damn near all recent AAA games and movies.
If they plan on staying in this business for much longer, they're going to have to embrace the change ( much like
the music industry did with digitial downloads vs physical media ) or risk going extinct within a decade.
- Assuming it takes that long considering the very impressive strides AI is making in terms of overall quality. -
It is something the shareholders of the Big Media Companies will be watching very closely.
( and they ALWAYS follow the money )