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This is probably the worst point for the strike, not least because conventional wisdom that Americans can't deal with subtitles is stone dead thanks to Parasite and Squid Game. I still think no one can do what Hollywood does consistently (blockbusters that might as well be large engineering projects), but there are other options for programming.
A lot of the work (VfX especially) is already outsourced. Maybe you can't outsource the rest but you can buy quality foreign media to tide you over.
Meh. Hollywood actors are probably the best off . Especially the stars that people feel lecture them
Writers are probably fucked. Voice actors? Mega-fucked. VFX artists simply never unionized. But stars and the fans they're Pied Pipering to the theater via parasocial connection and promotion are necessary. You also need a ton of people for shows with huge churn like CSI and other procedurals. Are you gonna import them all? CGI them all? Not yet.
Also: American actors are already competing with the world's greatest talent already. The best in the world are already there. I think Peter Dinklage was the only American in the main cast for Game of Thrones?
I'm not sure about this. Making characters you can have parasocial relationships with isn't that hard. See every popular cartoon / animation / Japanese anime; mascot characters like ComparetheMeerkat.com; vocaloid stars like Hatsune Miku.
Whereas at the moment GPT 4 still can't do writing. I've done some experiments and the method described here works pretty well: https://medium.com/@chiaracoetzee/generating-a-full-length-work-of-fiction-with-gpt-4-4052cfeddef3 but it's incredibly generic. Everything happens in the most direct, obvious way possible and there's no spark to it whatsoever. Now, that could just be the finetuning, so we'll see.
Anyone have any tips/tools for ai-assisted writing?
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