{"id":15041,"date":"2024-07-05T12:37:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T10:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/the-disruption-is-already-happening-is-ai-about-to-ruin-your-favourite-tv-show\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T12:37:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T10:37:52","slug":"the-disruption-is-already-happening-is-ai-about-to-ruin-your-favourite-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/the-disruption-is-already-happening-is-ai-about-to-ruin-your-favourite-tv-show\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The disruption is already happening!\u2019 Is AI about to ruin your favourite TV show?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It won\u2019t be long till everything from Drag Race to Keeping Up With the Kardashians could be written without humans \u2013 and you might be able to write yourself as the hero of a new show. But will robot TV ever be up to snuff?<\/p>\n<p>Justine Bateman won\u2019t name names, but a TV showrunner friend once came to her with a dilemma: their show\u2019s team was well into filming its second season when a network executive had an idea. A character in the pilot hadn\u2019t tested well with audiences, so they were just going to go in, use a little AI, and swap in someone else.<\/p>\n<p>The showrunner \u2013 and Bateman, an actor and director \u2013 were understandably incensed. \u201cWhen you change the beginning of something, you change the creative trajectory,\u201d says Bateman. \u201cThere\u2019s going to be whiplash for the viewer when they get to episode three or four because what was set up in the pilot got messed with and now doesn\u2019t make sense.\u201d Using AI might have seemed like a simple solution to the executive, but to the showrunner, it was catastrophic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/article\/2024\/jul\/05\/the-disruption-is-already-happening-is-ai-about-to-ruin-your-favourite-tv-show\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d41e41f8f716317587f767f820b954c75bd4c904\/219_0_5625_3375\/master\/5625.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=feaf971bc488bdb11576c79845890cb0\" title=\"\u2018The disruption is already happening!\u2019 Is AI about to ruin your favourite TV show?\" \/>It won\u2019t be long till everything from Drag Race to Keeping Up With the Kardashians could be written without humans \u2013 and you might be able to write yourself as the hero of a new show. But will robot TV ever be up to snuff?<br \/>\nJustine Bateman won\u2019t name names, but a TV showrunner friend once came to her with a dilemma: their show\u2019s team was well into filming its second season when a network executive had an idea. A character in the pilot hadn\u2019t tested well with audiences, so they were just going to go in, use a little AI, and swap in someone else.<br \/>\nThe showrunner \u2013 and Bateman, an actor and director \u2013 were understandably incensed. \u201cWhen you change the beginning of something, you change the creative trajectory,\u201d says Bateman. \u201cThere\u2019s going to be whiplash for the viewer when they get to episode three or four because what was set up in the pilot got messed with and now doesn\u2019t make sense.\u201d Using AI might have seemed like a simple solution to the executive, but to the showrunner, it was catastrophic. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It won\u2019t be long till everything from Drag Race to Keeping Up With the Kardashians could be written without humans \u2013 and you might be able to write yourself as the hero of a new show. But will robot TV ever be up to snuff? Justine Bateman won\u2019t name names, but a TV showrunner friend &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/the-disruption-is-already-happening-is-ai-about-to-ruin-your-favourite-tv-show\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018The disruption is already happening!\u2019 Is AI about to ruin your favourite TV show?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15041"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}