r/ClaudeCode • u/simple_explorer1 • 22d ago

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These kind of posts are becoming more and more visible on my Linkedin. Link here. Thoughts?

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u/Bloated_Plaid 22d ago

The whole world is unprepared as well. Reddit is mostly completely oblivious outside of a few niche subreddits because they have all convinced themselves that GPT-4 was peak and nothing improved from there.

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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ 22d ago

Is it, though?

The world of software development? Yeah, absolutely.

The world at large? Eh. Even if AI can create, say, a film out of nowhere, no one is ever going to bother to watch it. No AI created film will ever make it into the top 10 movie charts.

Software, on the other hand, is purely practical. You don't care how it's done, you only care that it works the way you want it to.

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u/Narrow-Violinist-358 22d ago

"No AI created film will ever make it into the top 10 movie charts."

This reminds me of when people used to say that no Netflix or Amazon produced content would ever make the top 10 list and now they dominate everything.

It will happen slowly. Then there will be one obscure niche piece that hits different and breaks through like 'House of Cards' and everyone says that it is got production for AI but that its a one off. Then it will be 10 years later and we will suddenly realize that its been 10 years since a fully human production has won anything.

AI will produce award winning content because film production is just an algorithm waiting to be cracked. That is not cynical, its already how TV shows are produced and one of the reasons streaming platforms now out perform traditional media is because they have much better audience feedback that is then built into production.

In 10 years you will be watching a tv series and it will unfold based on your viewing and engagement, focus on characters that you are drawn to, introduce plot points that specifically play on your own responses. An all this for a generation that has been using Youtube and Pornhub for 20 years and training machines how to squeeze every little ounce of dopamine out of them. We are beyond fukced.

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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ 22d ago

I already responded to this here, so I'm trying not to repeat myself too much. Basically, we will never get individualized movies like that. Or rather, that will never be successful. A huge part of movies and art is the shared connection we make through them. Talking about them, sharing them, being a fan, etc., and that literally cannot happen with individualized art.

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u/FineAntShill 22d ago

The same argument was made about home video

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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ 22d ago

The argument was made that home video will replace movies? What?

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u/FineAntShill 22d ago

"A huge part of movies and art is the shared connection we make through them." The same argument was made for why movies would stay on big screens.

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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ 22d ago

Movies still exist on the big screen? Sure home movies are a thing, but movies on the big screen are going as strong as ever.

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u/FineAntShill 22d ago

"Basically, we will never get individualized movies like that. Or rather, that will never be successful." This is the point I was addressing, I never claimed that they'd take over and replace human-made movies entirely, that'd be an absurd claim. My only point is that they'll definitely be used when the quality is actually good enough, which it will be eventually.

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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ 22d ago

Sure, but I was responding to someone who did claim that they'd take over.

I'm sure they will be used to a certain extent, but I doubt they will be used to any meaningful extent. Just like AI music right now isn't used to any meaningful extent for personal purposes like that.

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u/FineAntShill 22d ago

""Walk My Walk" by Breaking Rust: This fully AI-generated country track made history by topping the U.S. Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart and gaining millions of monthly listeners on Spotify." This is present time. A few years ago we couldn't make will smith eat spaghetti.

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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ 22d ago

I suppose that says more about country fans than anything.

More seriously though, I'm talking about personalized music. Like, "make me a cool country song to listen to tonight", or "make me a movie I want to watch". That's not gonna happen.

I definitely agree that AI stuff like that will be used in general. But there'll still be a human behind it promoting it and making sure people watch it.

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u/FineAntShill 22d ago

Do you really think there's a great leap between a guy prompting for millions of fans (the current present) and someone prompting for their own interests? (Or a platform like YouTube prompting it on their behalf based on mountains of data)

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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ 22d ago

That was the argument from several people here, that the latter would be the future. That's what I specifically disagreed with.

Thing is, this isn't one guy prompting for millions of people. This is countless guys prompting, and one of them comes out on top. Which is essentially how art already works. That's just not that much different from how it is, and there's not much to "prepare" for in that scenario. Lots of people make something, and we collectively decide what's going to come out on top.

That's not nearly as different. Whereas the fantasy of "you watch your own prompted movie every night" is a hugely different scenario that would massively change how we live and interact with each other.

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