I want to speak to the manager of storytelling

[illuminatus@mstdn.social]

@davidgerard There are people who make me want to see how the inside of a skull opened with a brick looks like.

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@Illuminatus can Ai get us there

[dcoderlt@ohai.social]

@Illuminatus @davidgerard
Come on, spiders spent a long time weaving those webs between the ears, you can’t just defragment them like that.

[bjn@mstdn.social]

@davidgerard More worryingly, can you please automatically censor this website so I don’t see things I don’t like. I can imagine an LLM based filter system being able to do that for text. Is that what she’s shilling?

[sholemalejchem@hessen.social]

@davidgerard I thought they were already working on dynamic storytelling to destroy the last way we make any sense of this world...

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@davidgerard I think we have found a good candidate for being replaced by AI. I mean, a stochastic parrot. And not their *job* being replaced by one; I mean their *brain*. (They're already pretty close to that state.)

[raulredondo@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard watching Netflix like a porn movie

[dcoderlt@ohai.social]

@davidgerard
Big Browser doesn’t want you to know this but browser extensions to make websites better are free you can just install and customize them I have 465 extensions at home

[muetdhiver@piaille.fr]

@davidgerard Those people don't want to experience art, they want to consume content.

[rhodium103@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard
But we can all agree that we should have this option for cutting Strictly Come Dancing down to just the dancing and judges reading out the scores, right?

[henryk@chaos.social]

@davidgerard TBF, there's a lot of fiction which triggers an "I see what you're *trying* to accomplish here, but I'm just not interested" in me (and, trying is quite distinct from accomplishing). So, yeah, I fast-forwarded all scenes in Top Gun: Maverick with that woman who was not connected to the story in any way whatsoever.

[jwz@mastodon.social]

@cstross @davidgerard Now I want to get a pet parrot just to name it Stochastic.

[rhodium103@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard
But in all seriousness, while I don't know how to fix it, we really do need to get back to art and entertainment being something that a creator puts out into the world, and not a form of customised gratification. We should have shut this shit down when people started petitioning to get the ending of Mass Effect 3 changed to nip it in the bud before it got to this point where it's just normalised.

[jwz@mastodon.social]

@cstross @davidgerard I'd train it to say *SQUOCK* I'm a Chinese Box and that's racist! *SQUOCK*

[peter_sc@chaos.social]

@davidgerard I would go further: Watching a story unfold is very limiting. What if you want to see something from a different angle? How about we make one character selectable and you get to control them with a kind of controlling device? And what if every character you see has a icon above their head that tells you what they are all about? And what if there's a sort of mechanism that records your individual progress in the narrative? You could call it something catchy like Interact Vid!

[lucky@mastodon.nz]

@davidgerard our finest minds are truly on LinkedIn

[rich@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@davidgerard I often skip whole scenes. I watched the whole of the Walking Dead ouvre in 30 mins flat just by skipping those pesky zombie scenes

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@davidgerard Analysis Paralysis As A Service

[rich@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@nickzoic @davidgerard it was weirder for me, as I always skip consonants in posts to get more done

[rycochet@furs.social]

@davidgerard Why do I kind of suspect anyone who would want such a feature doesn't want it due to how the character is written, or for storytelling reasons but has other motives for wanting to see shows made in a way certain characters can easily be white... Washed out?