jasperhansen

Ain't into General Hospital. But Dude was Philo from UHF. Hilarious role. He will be missed.

I tend to find that tacky. But there is NO way Walt Disney would be on-board his company using A.I., especially for amateur "hobbyists". And that motherfucker was a union buster! He'd be absolutely against it not because it would hurt his workers, but because it would hurt the quality of his productions.

Maybe Uncle Walt valued the wrong things, ultimately, but Disney is currently spitting in the face of everyone who ever worked at that company.

I hope the political backlash they are getting makes them drop the project. Hey, folks got Kimmel back by canceling their Disney+ subscriptions. This seems like another five alarm fire, and just like Kimmel it is actually a huge unforced error. People shouldn't need to constantly cancel their Disney+ subscriptions because Disney shouldn't be doing this shit to begin with.

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I'm almost certainly going through with it. And it might piss fans off, but I talked to Candice (She is the Steward of the franchise) and when I explained it to her she thought the idea was great.

When the final chapter of The Dark Child Saga: The Fall Of F.I.S.H, ("{The End Of Life As We Know It") is posted online I am going to do an entirely controversial and crazy thing. I have the final 19 issues already scripted.

I am going to feed the first 71 issues' scripts into a screenplay writing Chatbot AI, give it the final 19 issue titles, and tell it to write those last 19 scripts for me based on the 71 scripts and titles I just fed the A.I.. I will read whatever the A.I. craps up once. And after the rest of the saga is published (using MY scripts, natch) I will have a section of the site for the A.I.'s scripts of those 19 issues. Untouched and unredacted. I predict it will be a HUGE fucking mess. And because I know how the Un-Iverse ends, I think the reader who reads it and sees this alternate take will be equal parts amused and appalled. That's how sure I am The Terran Wars is unprecedented. I imagine it will be one of the most popular things on the site and will probably wind up the second most viewed entry after Gilda And Meek "Groundwork".

There was a bit of outrage at the idea, and no lie, I had to think long and hard abut the potential drawbacks and ramifications. But I think if after reading the pros and cons the idea is too damn juicy to ignore.

Here are some of the drawbacks: "A.I. steals art. You feed it scripts for free, especially good ones, it's gonna rip you off."

I mentioned in the previous Dreamwidth entry that quite a few scripts in The Terran Wars are going to be ten times better than anything yet on the site. I really will have given the A.I. none of my REALLY best stuff. And can I be honest? If people using A.I. were directed to write scripts similar to the same way I wrote "Timeline Trilogy" and "All Blood Things.." I will take that professional loss just to have SOMETHING actually worth stealing and emulating out there.

Candice thinks this is a baller idea. She suggested to me to hold back certain elements from the A.I.. But that would defeat the purpose. If I want to prove A.I. writing is inferior to real people writing, the A.I. needs the proper (and fair) context. I'm not going to handicap it to make myself look better. Any failures of the A.I. will be its own, as will any successes.

When I talk about A.I. successes I know there is no way it will wind up as bonkers and gutwrenching as I made things, but I have heavily telegraphed several "huge" plot twists that so far, no readers have picked up on, or if they have, they never bothered contacting me to ask. I would not be shocked if an A.I. is able to pick up one or two of these things. The explanations behind it will undoubtedly be inferior to mine but that's sort of why this whole contest interests me to begin with. Is it possible a cold calculating A.I. could pick up major red flags readers missed for the sole reason that they were invested in the characters and personal dynamics at the time? I'm thinking probably. If not, I'll talk shit. A LOT of those clues were not subtle.

Be forewarned, this does NOT go for every twist in The Un-Iverse, but there are a couple that if you guess them right and ask me about them here, I'll be like "No doubt." I frankly expected them to be guessed LONG before now, and to me they are kind of an open secret at this point. If you have a clue what I'm talking about, but don't REALLY want to know years ahead of time, don't ask. Because about this thing, if you are right I WILL tell you. You have been warned.

I honestly feel a bit anxious about artists worried about A.I. stealing their jobs and ideas. I believe the section of the site will be so popular because it will prove that isn't actually a real threat in reality. If you believe in your vision, no computer can replace you. Suits may not understand this yet, but I hope that section of my site helps creators understand that.

But seriously, Quentin Tarantino is a fucking asshole. How has been been running roughshod over Hollywood for decades while being such a miserable, loathsome person?