ai Showrunner - Create AI TV

15 Person company allows people to create their own animated TV episodes with AI.

Showrunner is powered by Fable’s proprietary AI model, SHOW-2. Last year, the company published a research paper on how it built the SHOW-1 model. As part of that, it released nine AI-generated episodes based on “South Park.” The episodes, made without the permission of the “South Park” creators, received more than 80 million views.

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Example of a video:

Show: Exit Valley
PrimetimePrompt: The Walt Disney Company
Set: Burger Queen SF Outside - Sim Francisco
Characters: Kim Kardashian, Tom Cruise
Action: Activity Drinks Coffee
Walking: Enters then Exits (Group)
Prop: No prop
Filter: No filter
Created for: @Tay

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I'll take a look at this and see what they're doing. I have a list of mile long already of huge groups of heavily funded people building on this same concept in pretty underwhelming and unimaginative ways, So I'm not gonna worry about it Unless I see some actual talent.

This is the same core technological concept as the save point engine, But even just from the description I would say they're going about at a completely different way than I am.

OK I watched the demo video, lol, I'm not even slightly worried. These people are idiots. Well that's not fair, This is a group of very smart people that simply don't understand what needs to happen here. People aren't going to watch TV shows unless those TV shows are good, it's really that simple. Making a TV show and making a good TV show, It's an entirely different proposition, requiring entirely different technologies and workflows. I can watch one minute of This demo and see that 80% of the technology needed to get this right is missing.

Rather than getting super technical right off the bat and trying to explain a lot of the unique things my system is doing that their system isn't, I'll make some pretty simple observations That led me to believe this is a novelty tech.

1. It makes comedy shows where I never laugh once.
2. Cinematography is on the level of Street Fighter II
3. Faces have no character or expression
4. Voices are generic
5. Their system isn't learning from anyone competent, it's just executing commands with intelligence, That's not enough.
6. The system I'm developing actually watches Films by Scorsese, Ford, Attenborough, Lean, And as many as it needs to to learn how skilled writers and directors handle different types of situations and characters to deliver powerful emotional impact or humor that actually makes you laugh. I've spent more time teaching the robots to watch TV and learn than these people spent on their entire system. In the end that will make all the difference in the world.
7. The output I'm seeing here is lifeless and bland. It's exactly what people are expecting AI television to be. I think a lot of people will get excited about this for 5 minutes and then get bored.
8. I'm not looking to make a quick buck, I'm looking to make Content people will actually enjoy. To me this is just another Improved version of the infinite Seinfeld demo.
9. People are already really sick of AI slop, And the only real product of lasting value won't be slop at all, It will take a lot of time and thought and effort.
10. The answer none of these people seem to understand can be expressed in a single sentence. AI needs to be used as leverage for human talent and creativity, and every attempt To engineer a push X to win system will fail under the weight of its own commonality.
11. Aaron Sorkin could write a script and put it into this thing and it would still turn out garbage.
12. I used to live in San Francisco and VCS out there would hand a group of teenagers $10 million because they invented a **** pinwheel. They pay bartenders 150 bucks an hour for learning to put ice in a cup. I met a guy with $10 million in the bank whose only daily activity was watering a row of flowers. Trust me, inequality of income and opportunity is a real thing.

I've sat in a restaurant and watched someone tip a waiter a $100 bill for carrying a pizza across a room. Despite popular belief, how much funding you get depends a lot more on who you know and where you live than your quality, or the quality of your ideas. If Einstein was born in Somalia he would have been making key chains instead of fusion reactors.

SHOWREEL for movies
SHOWRUNNER for TV

Nate don't poo poo it, looks like a good strategic partnership. Let them do TV episodes/scenes, and you do you do movies/videos. The names sound like sister sites/technologies.

Well it's not such a small world as all that, There won't be two companies making AI Television there will be 50. Each will have different strategies and attributes. From my perspective this is a cash grab. It's obviously working, and while I can respect the strategy and even to some degree the technology, To me it's like watching The Grammys in the modern day.

There's John Williams And Stevie Wonder, sitting in the crowd clapping as someone hands a lifetime achievement award To a person who hired another person To watch a drum machine play a preset because the person receiving the award doesn't know how to use the drum machine. (I literally saw this happen). Not sure how you would feel after years of work as a metal artist If clubs were trying to pay you and your band in free pretzels and you saw a news article enthusiastically explaining that Justin Bieber Had just been given a $20 million prize for winning "Best New Heavy Metal Artist of the Year". The next day you see a Twitter post with 75 million likes of Justin Bieber holding Randy Rhoads touring guitar that he just bought, upside down and pretending to use the whammy bar because he doesn't know what frets are.

Just for clarification, Showreel isn't Save Point, I just sliced off a tiny bit of the technology that I thought would be useful and helpful for people creating minor Youtube stuff, music videos, wedding videos stuff like that. The tech showrunner has is much stronger than showreel, but much weaker than Save Point. Save Point has to understand the nuance and structure of all video entertainment, Showreel has to understand how to edit a music video, Very, very different engineering problems.

I get what you're saying and I agree that in a perfect world friendly collaborative cooperative development would benefit everyone. That's not what I see happening out there though. I see cash grabbers grabbing all the cash and everyone who takes the time to get it right showing up to an empty bank. You have no idea how close that line comes to describing the 2000s era tech boom in the Silicon Valley. All of the frauds did a run on the VCS while hype was at its apex and wiped out the investment pool before anyone had any time To put together anything substantial (with a few notable exceptions). I really do understand why AI has gotten the reputation it has. 1 million cheap lazy cash grabs in the headlines and not an article to spare for any of the hard working researchers making the real progress. Sam Altman is an exception, But a rare one. You know about Apple intelligence, A company that had absolutely nothing to do with any AI development and bought it after it was done then used their marketing budget to take credit for technology they didn't develop (what's new Shrugs Samsung, maker of Apple's Applevision Apple pixel screen used in all iPhones) , but can you name one single researcher who actually helped develop The initial breakthroughs that led to all this? I'd also note that in this upcoming future medium, There is no longer going to be a dividing line between movies and television, At least not on the production end. I won't go into a diatribe about the history of these two formats, But it's mostly about market forces and use cases putting the same jello into two different molds. Soap operas were designed around the need to sell dish detergent. Guiding light and The Godfather Share about 90% DNA on the back end. There won't be any clean separation in the future of AI film/Television. Boats and cars look very different but both are propelled by the same type of engine.

Anyway none of this is intended to sound unfriendly or argumentative, I'm just neck deep in this specific area, and have my own perspective on the wit and competence of a world where more people know who lil Xan is than know who Nikola Tesla was. One of them invented The technology that powers our entire world and everything we do all day, and the other one is an actual important person that deserves global recognition and unlimited financial reserves. (According to Twitter). If someone crosswires a Pokemon card site into a chat GPT API They will be rich for life long before anyone developing An AI to cure cancer ever gets paid. That's for the same reason that I'm complaining about the tech from this post. You can get Talking Pokémon cards up and running by Thursday, but curing cancer is going to take a decade.

I just thought it was a little uncanny. Showrunner, Showreel. And if they are getting somewhere, hitch a ride and provide their "videos" arm.

It's a logical thought but I've tried it before when I was out in the Silicon Valley. How much do you remember about the relationship between Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs? It wasn't a happy relationship. One knew how to program and the other knew how to raise money. The one who knew how to raise money took credit for everything the other one did then made them miserable, and now people only know the name of the person that raised the money.

When I went through high school they taught me that Thomas Edison Invented electricity. Thomas Edison was a businessman with financial resources who worked with Nikolai Tesla. Tesla like Wozniak understood the actual problems and solutions, Edison had the formula completely wrong (He wanted to run the national power grid on DC current), but had money and friends. You just can't win by selling yourself into servitude. it sounds like it could work but i've literally never seen it work. Every single real life situation I've ever been in where one person got handed a lot of money, that person enslaved everyone around them and took credit for all their work. I do get your point, I guess I just don't trust people any more.

I apologize for sounding so negative, I'm actually recklessly optimistic most of the time but its been a hard week, and while I'm not threatened by the technology or success of these people, I do feel the pressure ramping up every day, from the dilution in the market caused by 1000 companies a day proudly announcing that they've solved the whole thing when they absolutely haven't, snatching up a huge amount of investment capital, and eventually making investors more risk averse so that it's 100 times more difficult when the generation of products that could actually work does come around. Remember when Palmer Luckey invented VR for the first time in 2008? That's a 20 year old kid from a family of multimillionaires who added a few lines of code to a technology Over 30 years old, It was originally invented by "unmarked grave no 75478976", whoever that was. My point is that despite all our attempts at civilization we essentially live in a might makes right society, And I can't even conceive of a situation where I partner with someone From a wealthy area and get treated fairly. Maybe I'm wrong about that, But you know, 15 times bitten twice shy.

Well I hope the cream can rise to the top. Would be great to see your stuff out there and in the press like this other stuff.