Edward Saatchi runs Fable Studio, which started in 2018 doing virtual reality. A couple of pivots later, Fable has an exciting new project called Showrunner that lets you make your own TV show epis…
Saatchi says you can type in a few words and the AI will generate scenes — or even a whole show. There are two test shows. One is Exit Valley, which is a copy of South Park set in Silicon Valley. Here’s an excerpt. [Vimeo]
For anyone who decides not to click, you’re not missing out - the “episode” was equivalent to one of those millions of shitty GoAnimate “grounded” animations that you can find on YouTube. (in retrospect, GoAnimate/Vyond was basically AI slop before AI slop was a thing)
The closest that has to a use case is the guys who will do obnoxious parodies because the rights holders won’t like them. Let’s get Mickey Mouse doing something edgy!
Considering Tay AI was deliberately derailed into becoming a Hitler-loving sex robot, and the first wave of AI slop featured deliberately offensive Pixar-styled “posters”, I can absolutely see this happening. (At least until The Mouse starts threatening Showrunner with getting sued into the ground.)
Rights holders of Mickey Mouse? The character from the famous public domain animated short Steamboat Willie?
(Pedant disclaimer: I know, later versions of the character are still under copyright protection and Disney still has trademark rights even for the SW version)
I urge you to watch the proof of concept video this links to, it’s astonishing. finally ai has reached the level of a 12 year old on newgrounds who gets every submission blammed.
For anyone who decides not to click, you’re not missing out - the “episode” was equivalent to one of those millions of shitty GoAnimate “grounded” animations that you can find on YouTube. (in retrospect, GoAnimate/Vyond was basically AI slop before AI slop was a thing)
Considering Tay AI was deliberately derailed into becoming a Hitler-loving sex robot, and the first wave of AI slop featured deliberately offensive Pixar-styled “posters”, I can absolutely see this happening. (At least until The Mouse starts threatening Showrunner with getting sued into the ground.)
Rights holders of Mickey Mouse? The character from the famous public domain animated short Steamboat Willie?
(Pedant disclaimer: I know, later versions of the character are still under copyright protection and Disney still has trademark rights even for the SW version)
@BlueMonday1984
So it’s basically the machine from Rick and Morty a couple episodes back.
Coming back to this, because someone else made a better dunk on Saatchi’s Shit Generator than I could: