[Charlie_26]

I’m an actor and a software developer. And AI replacing us (the nobodies, the extras, ie not Tom Cruise) scares the shit out of me. Long live the theatre I guess.

[yifanl]

I'm resigned that it was all inevitable, but also just upset that we spent all this effort learning to automate away the parts of life that are actually interesting first.

How did people decide that writing and art and music and theatre were the things that we needed to automate out? Especially with these fields, it's not even about removing drudgery - the very process of creating is the interesting part!

[thefurdrake]

It has also been super gross to me to watch these infant technologies be thrown at removing humans from creative tasks. The whole point was supposed to be to automate the mundane, boring bullshit so we could do more things involving higher thought, not less.

[seoulmetro]

No one decided that. Those are just the things with the most quantifiable datasets to absorb and also not quantifiable enough to have to provide sources for their origins.

[brayhite]

I’m gonna strike a guess that the more interesting part is also the most expensive part. Replacing that means saving money.

[Charlie_26]

I don’t believe it’s the inevitable yet. What if it’s shit and you don’t want to see hundreds of AI extras? Never mind an AI Tom Cruise (who won’t be getting any academy awards if he’s entirely computer generated).

[j-bos]

The theatre's an intersting concept, like live music. I understand that every town once had plenty of performances and shows, but then came record record players, and the "best" would outcompete the local shows, ditto for movies and tv. Seems this is a continuation of such.

[ggambetta]

Hey, I'm a fellow actor/SWE. Wondering what's your story. Feel free to reach out, there's no contact details on your profile.

[Charlie_26]

Nice to meet you. We need to make an AI agent that gets us all the work. I’ll send you a message.

[falcor84]

Assuming he's not immortal, I wouldn't be surprised if after Tom Cruise dies, his estate (Scientology?) will keep making Tom Cruise movies.

[gosub100]

Already happened (in multiple ways) with Tupac. Released posthumous albums and reproduced his likeness holographically. I think its inevitable that actors will do the same.

[nashashmi]

AI won't replace you. It will enhance you and give you way too much work to cram into a small window of time. AI will be a series of trials and errors first, before it becomes something that you will learn how to finetune.

I remember the Web was this chaotic place of info "at your fingertip" and no one mentioned how difficult it is to find stuff. AI is just as fancy and shiny.

[kevingadd]

"AI will enhance you" is a really hard sell for voice acting. Voice actors are paid to use their physical training and experience in order to perform as directed in a unique way. Even if a voice actor were to go "now I trained this model on my own voice so I don't have to perform anymore", no sensible game studio or animation director would want to pay full price for an AI performance. The AI isn't going to be able to satisfy the precise demands of the director at a recording session, at least without a lot of domain specific training and extra work.

It's like telling a guitarist that AI will empower them because now the computer will play music for them.

An actor could probably additionally sell access to an AI version of their voice on the side, but doing that is devaluing their voice, arguably.

[gosub100]

Even if you're right that AI will "enhance" actors' skill, then that will raise the bar to an un-realistic standard that consumers will then expect. That's not a good thing.

[Charlie_26]

I so want you to be right, but do you know what ‘enshitification‘ is?