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Seth MacFarlane Quits ‘Family Guy’ Amid Hollywood Writers’ Strike

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0:00 because I don't know if you guys seen sex robbers lately they look crazy they look crazy I haven't checked them out lately I like the one I have at home it's really nice let's try some out yeah [Music] uh who's familiar with what's going on with the writer's strike right now oh my God I hear all my clients talk about the strikes I just saw it like I didn't realize it but a big part of why they won't sign the contract is the AI stuff oh that's what I heard no clue that that's part like the biggest part yeah definitely yeah it's one of the biggest Parts in terms of like writers wanting to protect their creative like involvement with certain things because now they they do feel threatened that they can be replaced with something like a Chad gbt to like kind of just you know write new episodes for different concepts and whatnot that are pulling from the intellectual kind of property

0:51 and Creations of former artists former writers you know what I'm saying so yeah that's what Chad GBC is getting anyway it's pulling from all the stuff that real artists and people have already done but it's easy and it works and it's cheap so they're basically just trying to fight for guaranteed things like uh better pay better like uh you know longer periods of like work that's guaranteed where it's like if I'm contracted onto this show it's a set amount of like time that I'm supposed to be like working on the project so that they have like Clarity on it on the work I'm just trying to be a migrant worker for the writers we got four feature films written I don't need to pay be paid ████ union fees or any of that ████ just make our movie like how can I get under the table and be the Home Depot writer yeah why they're on strike hire me I'll write your next ████ movie I bet actually a lot of people

1:46 we got ████ four movies or ████ sick and they're just the scary thing is like going on strike doesn't that sort of encourage the use of AI yeah isn't that kind of like at least at least like I'm not saying that like that's what it should be but like in the evidence of History like the like the great Car Wash Union that they tried to start and that encouraged the use of automated car washes and it's just like every time that happens where they push it to a point it's like more towards the side of yeah you know well in this situation uh because of it um Seth MacFarlane actually quit Family Guy amid the Hollywood Riders strike two he did huh so like what happens though when you get like big and key players in there especially a guy like did you hire the Home Depot writers

2:36 conceptualizing creating writing and voice acting multiple character you know what I mean so it's like there's that's a big quit yeah we're not playing that much of a role I wonder what the longevity of AI is in the form of like writing entertainment you know what I mean like is it do you think it's going to last do you think it'll be actually pretty good do you think it's going to be one of those things where we could see the formula that's being played out in TV shows because we could already see that now with like regular writers but do you think it would be it would get worse with AI or do you think it'll be just I honestly don't think it'll get worse that's the scary that's the reason because if it was if AI was that unreliable it wouldn't be that big of a thing on the table writers just go go ahead and use your crappy ass AI but it's not going to be crappy that's the scary part yeah and also what I think too is um like the whole like consuming the art

3:26 it's a relationship with the artist and the person consuming the art so like I I don't think AI can get as good as like like the most genius artists because some of those things are in the moment inspiration just two like synapses that happen like even if you're like doing stand-up comedy whatever you could do your same set every single time and then you're just inspired to say a different slightly different punch line and you switch that word out and boom it ████ hits and it kills even with music or whatever but I the scary part is I don't think consumers demand that high of quality that's true especially now so I think consumers they just want like give me anything just give me liberty give me anything right and so like I think AI can give them every single time and AI is telling them that consumers don't demand that yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's true here's a diabolical thought is you know how they map all the human DNA like all the

4:18 combination of the possibilities yeah you know there's some dirt out there that's not funny that has no storytelling ability is could map out all the possible stories or like a large chunk all the possible jokes put it online and any comic any writer that has me hey you know what you're copying me because you can't prove that they didn't read it or they didn't see it and that's why I think it becomes problematic that is crazy it's a good idea because you know those YouTube Comedians and Tick-Tock comedians that will word for word copy a comedian and deny it yeah and then when they get when they finally they relent they go oh I was paying homage to them right meanwhile they never said who who they got it from like where they got it but if AI is doing this like what's what's to stop and just mapping out every combination of words yeah um conversation that we had there

5:08 because that you know because like all it is is combinations of words like Bart you were saying like one word hit and just boom well they if they already mapped out all the possible words and if they put it out there and then someone's making like a million dollars from doing the performance like hey you know what I like no I put this out here I had it on this blog I wrote this out they copied I deserve some of that money like will they win I have no idea but that's kind of like to me is what the threat of AI That's like that's like also um you know how like you can take an image of something change it a certain amount of percentage and then after that it's no longer copyright 30 yeah 30 so like you know you could algorithmically take an AI script or a script give it to an AI and be like hey rewrite the script the same way change 30 of it but keep the the main story the same oh yeah so that it's like Falls within like not being able to be liable

5:59 for copyright did you guys see there's a new South Park episode all about AI it's about chat gbt and how the kids figured out they could use Chad gbt to do their homework and ████ and then the teacher was like I could just use chat you to grade this ████ I don't gotta read none of this and then like and then like uh I think Stan learns to use Chad gbt to respond to text from his girl so he never has to read them and it just Auto responds with the perfect response to all her texts so you could just do whatever he wants and then uh at the end the episode's ████ brilliant and then at the very end it goes this episode is written by chat nice that's so crazy but now we just have a I mean I feel like we've always had a world of people who don't really think much but now we have even more of a world or Society who is just so dependent on something doing everything for them especially when it comes to thought yeah you're bumping me out dude

6:51 sorry what happens though like who's responding all right welcome to reality is it is it like a no responsibility thing then because like you can get sued for plagiarism when you copy but if Chachi BT does it and let's say they don't change it enough who's getting sued right the Inception of that yeah nobody right probably nobody Chad gbt lawyers coming in oh my God maybe open AI is that the group that like put chat gbt out yeah maybe but I mean I think it's a it's a really complex new industry it's still your prompt though so it's like you know which industry this actually is like a monumentally shifted is sex robots here we go because you guys remember the movie serenity with uh Nathan Fillion uh David crumbles plays this character where he's out he's an introvert he's out by himself but he's got like two or three sex robots

7:41 and that you know when uh the whole um what is it I mean we all stay home because of the quarantine yeah yeah and then to me that's the goal of the one percent or the one percent uh everyone's gonna subscribe No One's Gonna own anything you subscribe to software scrub your car hey you know what forget owning a car we're gonna have uh cars like driverless cars pick you up stay home so if you stay home and then the sex robots come in for guys that are introverts that can't talk to women or whatever why would they need to go out they have the sex robot because I don't know if you guys seen sex robots lately they look crazy they look crazy I haven't checked them out lately yeah I like the one I have at home it's really nice so try some out yeah and bring them out I haven't been to that store oh you haven't okay is it on Colorado but like you put the AI chip in there where they can have actual conversations Beyond like yes no yes master yes slave

8:33 and you have regular conversations now people don't need to they don't need to leave home I mean isn't that kind of the same thing as only fans and people utilizing that but with the robots though you've got something to touch and hold on to and snuggle with I know they think like they don't need to leave the home but they do need to leave them but there's a lot of countries they don't like Japan Korea they don't yeah they do need biologically need to buy things for sure for sure for sure you know um and so I'm jealous they work from home they work on their computer they don't need to leave there's food delivery yeah and then if it gets to the point where robots deliver the food and then they talk to them how are you doing today great here's your food and if they have the AI chip in there that's that to me is like the scary part of it all like the plagiarism thing as a writer yeah of course that's huge but to me it's like this is taking a step back it's the sex robots that's where that's where we go

9:25 on strike for boys procreations will decrease as well you look at countries like Japan and Korea where um the birth rate has gone down and like I think now India is number one I mean here as well I mean it's everywhere um birth rates yeah birth rates everything or the sex robots you just keep the nut and then you go make babies with the robot babies true the nut maybe maybe the robot baby the robot could have robot baby I look good on a billboard did you did you guys see this one really good observation somebody was like dude The Jetsons had it backwards because in the prediction of the future robots and AI are doing the hard tasks like the labor but the creative are still people but it's absolutely the opposite we still need everybody to do hard labor and we don't need creative ████ now isn't that ████ scary yeah all the art stuff went first but then

10:16 still there's a dude in a coal mine yeah like that's crazy like construction is still by people you look at the Cobalt mine like that's crazier than ever because the prices are too good all the things that those devices do that they're mining the battery for yeah automated what the hell like like Wally to me the documentary Wally is where we're headed like documentary technology is to make our lives easier and Wally is basically to Pinnacle of that where they they're done with technology and so they all got fat because they didn't have to do anything yeah they're so dependent on the tools that they created them so I'm really starting to look like idiocracy though I hope we go towards that that's kind of fun no that documentary is fat shaming so I don't yeah you don't subscribe yeah I just liked it because it you know it's kind of like has my name in it but that's not fit okay well it's just narcissist he's a gas

11:08 lighting narcissist that you're like Wall Street too [Music]

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