TV has been A/B tested into aesthetic oblivion. The next renaissance won’t come from HBO or Netflix. It’ll come from outsiders wielding AI like a camera.
Yes to making a pilot with AI visuals (and voices) as a showcase. I get that. But not the writing. If the writing is done by AI, is will be the same content that sedates. Because AI can’t create anything new, it’s all derivative.
I get where you're coming from, Marcel, but I think we might be underestimating what’s possible here.
"AI is safe" can be true, but only when used in safe, generic ways. Most people prompt AI like they're asking it to write an essay for school. Of course the result is bland. But that’s not a limitation of the model so much as a reflection of the user's imagination.
Used well, AI is a chaos amplifier. A creative person can feed it twisted prompts, remix its outputs, and force it into strange territory. It becomes a tool for exploring 50 paths at once, accelerating iteration and idea synthesis. That's not sedation. It’s exploration at speed.
The problem isn’t that AI is incapable of taking the “Breaking Bad” path. It’s that most people are too conventional to steer it there.
That’s fair, Dave but I don’t think we’re there yet. (To clarify, I’m a published writer who experiments with AI a lot. It definitely helps me with editing, but writing is bland so far, no matter the prompts. But I of course have no idea what’s gonna happen next year).
Yes to making a pilot with AI visuals (and voices) as a showcase. I get that. But not the writing. If the writing is done by AI, is will be the same content that sedates. Because AI can’t create anything new, it’s all derivative.
Well all stories a derivative, aren't they?
Sure, but as you said in your post, there’s the safe way or the Breaking Bad way. AI is safe.
I get where you're coming from, Marcel, but I think we might be underestimating what’s possible here.
"AI is safe" can be true, but only when used in safe, generic ways. Most people prompt AI like they're asking it to write an essay for school. Of course the result is bland. But that’s not a limitation of the model so much as a reflection of the user's imagination.
Used well, AI is a chaos amplifier. A creative person can feed it twisted prompts, remix its outputs, and force it into strange territory. It becomes a tool for exploring 50 paths at once, accelerating iteration and idea synthesis. That's not sedation. It’s exploration at speed.
The problem isn’t that AI is incapable of taking the “Breaking Bad” path. It’s that most people are too conventional to steer it there.
That’s fair, Dave but I don’t think we’re there yet. (To clarify, I’m a published writer who experiments with AI a lot. It definitely helps me with editing, but writing is bland so far, no matter the prompts. But I of course have no idea what’s gonna happen next year).