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Originally Posted by neil_swann80
If there was an AI deemed sentient, that did create genuinely original content, if you were then to discover this AI had written your favourite book do you think that knowledge would affect your opinion of the book?
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Probably so, yes, because of the way I've always viewed art. I follow creators rather than franchises.
I read comics. But I don't read mainstream superhero comics. I love Alan Moore's work and like all right-thinking individuals, think Watchmen is a masterpiece. But I don't give a crap about the recent Doomsday Clock stuff.
I enjoy schlocky books and movies, but I endeavor to seek out the work of particular writers and directors. Not everything Spielberg directs is a hit. But at least it is all his work.
I'm kind of all over the place, but there is a point:
Hollywood built on Spielberg and Lucas. But they only took the spectacle. Many modern movies are made to fit demographics, test audiences and franchise possibilities. The are cold, soulless and calculated.
Modern comics followed the example of Alan Moore and Frank Miller. But they only took the grittiness of it and we got the extreme comics of the nineties and all the early Image garbage.
AI will not produce a Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas, Alan Moore or Frank Miller. AI doesn't have a viewpoint shaped by upbringing.
AI could probably run the Marvel Cinematic Universe for a while. Likely the Marvel Comic Universe as well. It could (and likely will) write many James Patterson books.
But I don't see AI spitting out something like American Graffiti, E.T., V for Vendetta or Sin City.