Despite stuff like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, I think the more advanced visual arts will be safe for some time to come: movies, music videos, TV shows. Anything that requires extremely consistent people and other physical elements, environments that look the same, plots that both need to make sense and have a high degree of continuity.
Besides all that, even if such technology did exist, I think trying to prompt it to make something you’d like would be nearly impossible—the more degrees of freedom a creative work has, the more you have to specify it to get exactly what you want. A single SD image may take dozens of phrases in the prompt, and that’s just for one one-off image! I imagine that specifying something with the complexity of, say, Breaking Bad would require a prompt millions of phrases long.
I agree that you would have to write a very long prompt to get exactly the plot of Breaking Bad. But “write me a story about two would-be drug dealers” might lead to ChatGPT generating something plausible and maybe even entertaining, which could be the input for an AI generating a scene. The main protagonist wouldn’t probably look like Bryan Cranston, but it might still be a believable scene. Continuity would be a problem for a longer script, but there are ways to deal with that. Of course, we’re not there yet. But if you compare what AI can do today to what it could do five years ago, I’m not sure how far away we really are.
Despite stuff like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, I think the more advanced visual arts will be safe for some time to come: movies, music videos, TV shows. Anything that requires extremely consistent people and other physical elements, environments that look the same, plots that both need to make sense and have a high degree of continuity.
Besides all that, even if such technology did exist, I think trying to prompt it to make something you’d like would be nearly impossible—the more degrees of freedom a creative work has, the more you have to specify it to get exactly what you want. A single SD image may take dozens of phrases in the prompt, and that’s just for one one-off image! I imagine that specifying something with the complexity of, say, Breaking Bad would require a prompt millions of phrases long.
I agree that you would have to write a very long prompt to get exactly the plot of Breaking Bad. But “write me a story about two would-be drug dealers” might lead to ChatGPT generating something plausible and maybe even entertaining, which could be the input for an AI generating a scene. The main protagonist wouldn’t probably look like Bryan Cranston, but it might still be a believable scene. Continuity would be a problem for a longer script, but there are ways to deal with that. Of course, we’re not there yet. But if you compare what AI can do today to what it could do five years ago, I’m not sure how far away we really are.