If AI and CGI were good enough you could make as many versions of the Captain Marvel movie as people wanted at near zero marginal cost: male, female, black, white, gay, straight...
A representation problem turned into a customization problem
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Would that approach customize the narrative as well to create plausible and relevant characters with the chosen attributes?
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Sure. We’ll get there eventually. AlphaGo will probably learn to generate stories fitting arbitrary parameters soon.
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Being able to take all white male casts and use AI & CGI to create variations that satiate diverse markets while not actually employing diverse people is extremely problematic.
It would be “near zero marginal cost” to the studios at the expense of already marginalized people.
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Start with AI actors like they’re already starting to do in Japan
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Feels like there will be an abundance-induced scarcity here somewhere - some people will be satisfied to see themselves represented, but the other 90% is that they want everyone else to see it, too 🤔
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Wanting 7.5 billion people to acknowledge your existence via association with a universally appealing character you identify with as narrowly as possible... seems prima facie unreasonable to me.
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There's an inversion of control issue though. To choose a variant is akin to tickling your own foot. It's just not the same.
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True, same with songs. People would still be offended though I bet.
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Then the representation angle would be about who made the AI/CGI
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