Live experiences, and flesh-and-bone actors/performers, are always theoretically superior to fakery. There's a depth, nuance, authenticity and emotional connection that can't be replicated using algorithms, but until people GET THEIR FUCKING SHIT together and STOP ACTING LIKE ASSHOLES, it's arguably an option, isn't it? The ball is in THEIR court? I have MY shit together (in terms of not being an ABUSIVE ASSHOLE), but, alas, I am a talentless mediocrity. As the frankly BRILLIANT film, Amadeus (which, perhaps, rather aptly, features the brilliant and Oscar-winning, but *cancelled* actor, F. Murray Abraham) notes, talent and twattery often goes hand-in-hand.
*FEMINIST* Camille Paglia said something along these lines: "There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper." Now, I personally don't agree with the sex/gender element of what she's saying (ironically, I appear to be MORE OF A FEMINIST than her. LOL. π), but I also think she does hit on something when she implies that genius and evil are often connected (look at the likes of Picasso and Wagner for example; both major assholes, and both brilliant, innovative and enduring artists). Where I disagree with Paglia is the notion that women can't be genuises, or, indeed assholes. But I'm no a gender/sex essentialist like that DICKHEAD, Jordan Petersen, and so I don't tend to see things in 'men versus women' terms, just 'a-holes versus decent people' terms.
To quote Harry Lime from The Third Man: "You know what the fellow said β in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace β and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." He wasn't wrong...
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samoanjoes (58610)
2 years ago
The problem is that people will milk this dry. A band will release an album and go on a virtual tour while making money on each show. There will be no interaction with the audience. This really only works as an appreciation gig: "Led Zeppelin: An Appreciation of Years of Music" or "A Jimi Hendrix Experience Experience". No one will want to do live gigs anymore. It's similar to AI writing screenplays. No one will want the real thing anymore.
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HarveyManFredSin (4877)
2 years ago
Like I say, on a personal, emotional and instinctive level, you don't have to convince me. REAL people are far more compelling to watch than holograms, and the beauty of a live performance is that each performance is unique, and there will be nuances and instances of serendipity, maybe even happy mistakes, where moments of magic occur, that can't be replicated by a computer program where all 'flaws' are ironed out.
BUT once again, I'm talking about the benefits of AI when it comes to combating the bad behaviour of real-life actors. That should be the threat "Until your community [the acting community] bucks up your ideas, and stops behaving like jackasses, be prepared to have fullscale replacement by AI hanging over your heads!"
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