>this is what media companies invested in instead of making actual cartoons
Reminds me of GoAnimate
>>152574403Executives are dumping tons and tons of money into Ai hoping that the cheap and easy production quality will offset the billions poured into itRight now Ai is good at recreating already existing scenes with variations, now they just need it to produce full 11 to 22 minute episodes and they can officially fire their writers and animators and they can finally start making their money back
>>152574532How would that make them their money back? Who would be paying for a show produced entirely with AI?
>>152574532You WILL pay $14.99/mo for unlimited hours of>hey someone else did that joke
>>152574573Speculation economy
>>152574573Forget the AI part, who would pay to watch GoAnimate Rick and Morty clones with awful writing?
>>152574573All modern financial philosophy in the US is based on the scars the older generations earned during the emergence of the Internet. The public tends to focus on the dot com bubble, but there was nothing notable there: many start-ups started up and then many start-ups failed. That's normal. The abnormal part was how a failure to modernize destroyed proven existing companies. Take Sears as an example: they had already established international shipping infrastructure to support their catalogue, they could issue credit cards through their partnerships with banks, and they had direct partnerships with IBM. No one had a bigger head-start in online commerce, and they just sat on the opportunity because there wasn't a market for it yet (and why would there be? Reading a catalogue was more convenient than dial-up browsing, and ordering by phone was faster and more secure.) By the time they started to act, the market was filled. The CEOs know that there's no market for AI media and that there may never be a market for it, but blowing the expansion budget on a pipe dream and writing it off as a business expense is far safer than having no presence in the space if that market does show up eventually.
>>152574532Why would I pay to see something I could do myself ?
This is the future of cartoons
It's just like Adventure Time!!!
>>152576277tl;dr: Better to blow money just in case it does take off, than be at the back of the line if it does.
>>152576345They realize nobody wants to watch them so the new gimmick is the showrunner/Disney+ thing about getting to make your own cartoon
>>152579041Someone in the thread where that was announced already said the problem there.Most people don't want to make "safe" images or animations with these AI.That's not to say they ALL want to make porn, but it is to say most want "gangsta spongebob" levels of edge. You can't have a good user-generated content scene unless you allow sacrilege with the IPs, you can't allow sacrilege with the IPs because anything made with that tool since its all content is technically Disney-endorsed.A good fanart scene has to both advertise for you while distancing you from what is actually made.
>>152574403>AI can't draw, it can't even get hands right>AI can't animate because there's not enough consistency between the individual frames>AI cartoons look bad compared to real cartoonsI'm not particularly pro-AI, but can you not see the current trajectory and extrapolate where things are headed?Also, since you're talking about investment, you have to think like an investor. Investors don't make decisions based only on current or past performance. There's no "alpha" in that.
>>152574403Dude's really snacking on a whole ass loaf of bread.
>>152579359>you need to think like an investorLet me try...Hmm...I'm retarded...and throw my money at THE NEXT BEST THING without knowing a single thing about the industry, the infrastructure or the cost of upkeep for all these datacenters...Ugh, I feel dirty after thinking like that.
>>152579359This isn't AI generated video, it's a digital puppet animator thing. It's like plugging chatgpt into a modded version of GoAnimate. If this is worth $50 million, investors should be giving the AI Sponge guy 10x as much because his works in 3D.
>>152574403>tfw you will live to see the day where mainstream media companies start making punishment day videos
>>152579544Well, that's largely true, but not quite what I was driving it.Investors are making a gamble. The riskier (or in your view, the dumber) the bet, the larger the potential profit. By the time AI has actually proven itself capable, it would be too late.In turn, companies like Amazon has to react to that sentiment. For them, it would be risky not to invest in AI at all. 50 million does seem quite steep, but considering the amount of money these streamers have burned with "real" animation, maybe it's not.
