The title of this YouTube video claims that “Chrome Lords” was a 1988 movie that ripped off “RoboCop” and “Terminator.” But in fact “Chrome Lords” never existed. The video is ten minutes of “stills” from a movie that never was… all the images were produced by an AI. And other than places where it looks like AI/CGI, it *does* rather look like one of those schlocky 1980’s crapfest movies. So, well done. But here’s the thing… give it a few years (5? 10? 20?) and someone will have an AI take a few text prompts and spit out a full script, feed these images and the new script into another AI… and shazam, “Chrome Lords” will exist as an actual 90 minute horrible movie. But who – if anyone – will own the copyright?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z_VeN54f0M
2 responses to ““Chrome Lords””
There is one path out of the trap of realistically faked ‘reality.’ I speak of it in a chapter of The Transparent Society: “The End of Photography as Proof?” That solution is the one that I keep offering and that is never, ever mentioned at all the sage AI conferences. Ensuring COMPETITION AMONG AIs.
No matter how clever some become, as liars, others – incentivized to tattle truth – will likely be just as smart.
It is ONLY the exact method that our enlightenment civilization used, to get some kind of leash on human predators and parasite-lords. Yet none of our sages seem capable of even noticing what was plain to Adam Smith and Thomas Paine.
At least in part, the issue isn’t that people will be fooled into thinking that AI art was produced by humans. The issue is that people will know it’s AI art… and will *prefer* it to human art. AI can look into the collected lifetime of the stuff you’ve watched and liked and disliked and produce for you *exactly* what you want. Do you want season 4+ of Star Trek: TOS, but now with added boobies and season-by-season story arcs that hold together, with occasional Dr. Who and X-Men crossover episodes? Sure, here ya go, thirteen remarkably good episodes per hour for the rest of your life.