What’s the deal with AI technology?Screenshot: Mismatch Media / KotakuThere’s always something to watch on Twitch, whether that’s your fave musicians talking about video games or your fave streamers discussing politics. Now your choices include an absurd, often nonsensical Seinfeld-like show that runs 24/7/365 and is generated on the fly using artificial intelligence. Welcome to the future of TV, maybe?So-called AI has been a fraught topic lately. The technology, which typically uses machine learning to generate text, images, and even video from preexisting sets of data, is suddenly everywhere: art, article and essay writing, even video games. You almost can’t escape the discourse these days, especially if you spend any time online or reading the news. It feels like we’re reaching that point in ‘80s and ‘90s sci-fi films when AI takes over the world. Perhaps that feels especially true in the wake of the suddenly hot Twitch channel, watchmeforever, which uses AI to create every element of a never-ending TV show.Watchmeforever, started by the media lab Mismatch Media, runs the 24/7 Seinfeld-like, sitcom-like Nothing, Forever. Using generative, machine-learning technologies such as DALL-E, OpenAI GPT-3, Stable Diffusion, and others, the resulting video makes for an awkward Xerox of Larry David’s
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AI-Generated Seinfeld-Like Twitch 'TV Show' Is Peak Absurdity – Kotaku
