Oh dear, no!
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The question is how long will it actually be cheaper? They’re going to have to start paying back that venture capital at some point, plus the data centers running off fossil fuels and apparently even straight diesel generators…Can it become absolutely integral before then, or will execs eventually swing back to underpaying recent grads just excited to be in the industry?
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Yeah, even ignoring all other factors (which we shouldn’t be doing), their business model is clearly “run well below cost, disrupt the industry, get everyone relying on it, then jack up the price”, just like with Uber, or AirBnB, or most streaming services, or countless other things that work on a “disruption” model. Staying away is clearly the responsible thing to do, and the cheaper financial move in the long run
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That’s a very good question, and it remains to be seen what the answers are. Most new tech that has once been cheaper than existing tech has stopped being cheaper at some point…
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Aside from everything else I haven’t heard someone say “baby cakes” in like 100 years.
for good reason too.
this is the only surviving comment from a now redundant and erased time line in case there is any confusion
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Name calling and personal insults are absolutely unacceptable here on TG Forum. A reminder that this behaviour will be dealt with by banning if necessary, and if it continues here, this thread will be put on slow mode.
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We had another return of the infamous Koquillion, I’ve removed the messages as they were getting personal.
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Oh blimey!
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That fookin policeman literally had two expressions. Passively concerned and super smiley.
The actor brought a lot to the role though. Same with John Warr, the ‘new’ Doctor. I loved his little ab libs and improvisations. They added so much to his performance.
Or rather they would if he was real, and capable of such things. But he’s not. The shape saying those lines has contributed nothing. It’s nothing more than a synthetic performance and a vacuous projection of gestures masquerading as emoting.
Creatively is a collaborative process, particularly in media and entertainment, But with no actors, directors, designers to interact with or bounce ideas off, a writer using AI is denied the stimulus of a healthy working relationship with the folk who’ll give shape to their vision. All they’re left with is the syphoning of raw material. An accumulation of available data. No on set magic, no inspiration, just output.
It’s soulless, it’s empty, it’s depressing.
And when the author of The Unmade Season is himself superceded by AI, then he’ll no doubt join the chorus of disapproval.
Still, in other news…
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Personally, I’d rather have a thousand Reality Wars written by humans over a single Blink written by a computer. If it’s not meaningful enough for someone to write, why should I be bothered caring about it?
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One of my favorite things about Doctor Who is that the guy writing Timewyrm: Genesys is also writing Revenge of the Judoon for the BBC Quick Reads series. You can find the most obscure story sets, but they’re often curated by some of the best writers and biggest who fans. Can you imagine if the Adventure Calendar stories were AI generated? We would have never gotten the masterpiece that is “Blue Moon”
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Dicks wrote Timewyrm: Exodus not Genesys.
(Sorry, pedant mode disengaged)
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It’s okay, I almost wrote Judoon Afternoon and boy, I would have been real embarrassed by that blunder
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Genesys is pretty much what stalled out my reading the VNA’s, so I’d hope it wasn’t by Dicks…
Per wikipedia:
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I think my main takeaway from this article is that the BBC is run by Mr. Brittin.
Sure you misspelled Britain, but it still sounds like something I would pretend to believe for comedy
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Anyway can the show come back when I’m finished uni so I can get a job working on it /j
(I’m not even in uni yet I start that next year I think)
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The UK one. Not a fan of it personally.
I can see the benefits of both. On one hand, an unknown has the advantage of not knowing what to expect based on their previous acting credentials. On the other, a household name could boost casual audience interest at a time where the show would need it.
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Yeah both are good points, now you have said it, having a well known face in the role would be beneficial, it worked for Eccleston. I just think big names don’t tend to want to be tied down for long, it would be good to get someone who can do years of new Who without worrying they’ll jump ship.
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