The AI Entertainment Revolution
John Ink2Quill
www.ink2quill.com

AI has entered our lives and is here to stay. It isn’t a passing fad or an exaggerated tale from the SciFi community of dreamers and thinkers. It is a part of our lives in many ways. That is, our work lives, the work place, our hobbies and private lives too. When we need to craft an email to such and such person for such and such reasons the AI does most of the heavy lifting. If we need to look up various facts and possibilities then we consult AI. I hear that AI is one hell of a programmer too. Some people even talk about generating entire books with AI. All of the various AI are an intricate part of our lives in ways we do not completely know. For better or for worse.

I am grateful for the acceptance letter AI gave me to answer a job post. It was perfect and I did have to edit it and tailor it to my specific needs but it worked. It saved me x amount of time with that task and I am grateful. It is a fact that now, in this moment, AI has not reached the stage of perfection where it will need very little edits or checks but it still is a great time saver in so many ways. I hear that programmers agree too.

It is however true that AI will continue to replace jobs like accounting, many secretarial and admin. tasks. Many jobs that require a type of evaluation from a data set or group of symptoms as in the case of medical doctors will have a new secretary/nurse/colleague/ etc. in AI. Without a doubt.

My big question is what will happen to the entertainment industry? After all the entertainment industry isn’t just a money maker. It’s a place where people can come and tell their story or just a story. It’s a place of self expression and the exchange of ideas. What will happen to an industry where it’s sole task is to grind out quantity of content? Like the engine in a car revving itself up faster and faster but really going nowhere. The meat and potatoes of entertainment should be creativity and some short cuts in this creative process can lead to a bland outcome. Stories with nothing genuine about them are going to be a reality of we are not careful. We are already partially stuck with an entertainment industry that is very formulaic and trite but if we’re not careful things could get worse.

Think of the many super hero films that Hollywood produces each year. The stories are not adapted properly to today and the stories are just so predictable. And almost all of them cannot hold candle to the older comic book stories we read as kids. With a little more elbow grease and Hollywood come make some good films inspired from the old comic book stories. Take for example the character of Daredevil. The story takes place in New York City, Hell’s Kitchen of the 1980s, 1990, 2000s which was at the time, according to the story, an Irish Ghetto of tenement building riddled with crime and drugs and at the top of the underworld hierarchy was the Kingpin of crime, Mr. Fisk himself. A criminal genius who sold drugs and was involved in so many other criminal endeavors. Those days, that neighborhood, has changed with skyscrapers and a new group of people living there. The neighborhood is different now so just rehashing the old stories without any of the modern changes just doesn’t work. That’s what you call sloppy story telling/ film making. And we see this over and over again in Hollywood films. Foreign movie houses understand this and are able to make better productions than us now. Countries like Korea, China, India, France, Spain, Germany, Russia and many other countries are releasing some very good productions and I believe they will continue to do so.

We really need to jump back on our horses, so to speak, and start producing some of the magic we made decades ago. I’m optimistic though. I believe that we have at least a few good classics left in us.

John Ink2Quill

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