[skytrue]

https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever - AI-generated (aside from the artwork) parody of '90s sitcoms, running forever (24/7/365).

We worked on this w/ a very small team for the past four years, in-between our day jobs. When started, OpenAI didn't have an API, and Stable Diffusion definitely wasn't a thing, so we had to come up with novel methods to thread cohesive content together. Most of the "creative" details e.g., laugh track, dialogue, frequency of dialogue, camera shots, and so on, are all tunable on a per scene basis.

We're in sort of a holding pattern right now -- no clear path to monetization for the project, and it hasn't garnered enough attention for us to probably get funding based on the technology backbone.

Hope you enjoy it! Labor of love. :)

[e1ghtSpace]

It would be cool if you could somehow integrate twitch chat into it. Like maybe the characters mention keywords from the chat, or there could be like some screen that displays chat messages somewhere and the characters react.

[skytrue]

We actually do scrape Twitch chat—- we have onscreen gauges, meters, etc, that the chat can interact with by saying certain things that will change what happens in the show. I just don’t have it turned on right now because our viewer volume is pretty low. :) Great suggestion though re: characters interacting to viewer chat, that would be a lot of fun.

[iliane5]

This is really cool. Are the dialogue, etc. generated in advance or is it all being generated live for every scene?

[skytrue]

We generate the dialogue per every scene, every 2 minutes or so. We wanted to be able to massage the narrative over time, so the show is constructed in these two minute intervals.

[Shish2k]

I love this, I think I might leave it running while I fall asleep, instead of my normal audiobook-or-podcast :)

[skytrue]

:D, awesome! Our vision for this was actually just that — second screen content, not necessarily the primary thing you have on, so we love to hear that!

[gremlinsinc]

How is it animated?

[skytrue]

It’s prefabricated 3D models, rendered through a game engine. We do some specific things to make it look how it does.