This video of David Attenborough narrating a programmer’s life shows Hollywood actors were right to be afraid of AI::If you’ve ever wanted acclaimed broadcaster and documentary filmmaker Sir David Attenborough to narrate your life, you’re not alone — and you don’t have to keep merely wishing for it anymore.
I wonder why we didn’t have a slew of articles about how “model makers and make-up artists were right to be afraid of CGI.”
Could it have anything to do with the people writing the articles having an implicit bias in covering a subject that’s been said to be effective at doing the same thing they do (like taking the popular post on Hacker News and mashing it up into a more clickbaity headline and ‘article’)?
New technology changes the status quo. But generally the status quo isn’t something that we should be overly concerned with preserving over progress.
The demo is using Attenborough to get attention, but in practice this could have been a kind of Morgan Freeman and Attenborough mashup that doesn’t sound exactly like either but ends up as “deep and smooth narrator voice” which isn’t directly infringing on anyone’s likeness.
And because it’s AI, it would mean anyone else could copy it freely because AI isn’t protected.
People are focusing way too much on direct infringement of IP during this early stepping stone period and not realizing that we are largely moving into a post-IP world quickly as this tech scales up. And really, that’s going to be a very good thing for society.
Media is moving away from being a product to being a service, and fighting the tide of change right now is just going to lead to a bunch of quickly outdated legacy red tape like the DMCA which holds back smaller operations while the larger players move with the inevitable tides.
The status quo is that people have jobs that help them get survival necessities. The impact is to those people. The benefit is largely to corporations. That is the history of technology.
While I agree, there is nothing sacred about specific people being recognized narrators or actors or makeup artists, there is something sacred about people being able to feed and house themselves. And because our systems has no redress, it is in the working classes’ best interest to protect the status quo at this time.