[socket0]

And yet when I watch the flood of movies, television shows, novels, music, and fine art available to me, I have a really hard time finding anything unpredictable. Great skill is involved in creating them (sometimes), but for every one experience that amazes me I have to slog through hundreds that really don't. At best I'm entertained. The output is formulaic, as you would expect from businesses guided by bookkeepers. The sad fact is that a large number of these productions very well might have been generated using an advanced LLM.

[23B1]

Yes, this is because Hollywood - like tech – is a subset of business, which optimizes for profits over creativity.

Which is why, as a creative, I'm not super-worried about AI destroying creativity. It might actually help democratize much of the tools one needs to make a movie or a book, but at the end of the day creative consumption is a human-to-human demand.

[jruohonen]

> And yet when I watch the flood of movies, television shows, novels, music, and fine art available to me, I have a really hard time finding anything unpredictable.

Wouldn't that just testify that Hollywood et al. are no longer really "innovating"?

[socket0]

Absolutely. They're going for all the safe, boring choices, and depending on the business side of their industry to make money. You don't show a profit by making the next Children of Men, you show a profit by tweaking the Fast&Furious formula and strong-arming theaters into showing it.