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Re: And just like the [movies] We play out our last scene
Nothing worse than a story that's structured so heavily on a reveal that pretty much everything leading up to it is basically procrastinating.
Can't tell you how many stories would work better if the big shocking reveal was the starting point.
I get a little chuckle whenever I see a real strident No Spoilers Ever type ALSO complain about JJ Abrams puzzlebox shit
Like, I dunno, kinda sounds like some priorities are aligning and there are some natural consequences to what we prioritize, but what do I know
Re: Death of the Artist [AI-Generated "Art"]
One area where I can see AI really taking off is topographical 3D modeling for open world maps. It's probably already done in a primitive way, and it will be harder to draw a line between acceptable and unacceptable practices when you're talking arbitrary textures and polygons that are not really supposed to exactly reproduce known landscapes.
The thing is, what does this sort of thing is better described as "large-dataset-trained open world terrain generation." We've been using procedural, rule based open world terrain generation for ages, like at least since the 90s it's been a feature of video games. It's a highly developed field, very effective at doing what it needs to do. All you're introducing is the need to acquire, somehow, a staggeringly large amount of 3d topographical data, which either has to be based on other people's data (and IP that is even more defensible than the standard artist style) or an immense amount of actual topographical scans which are highly technical, difficult to make, and expensive (so, most likely stolen, and from groups that are highly protective of that data, such as governments, oil companies, etc). And with little upside! The level of detail you want from terrain generation is generally low, because you're just working with so many data points that it's not technologically feasible to get highly detailed in a way that might make the difference between procedural and data set based generation.
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