Marc Andreessen thinks comedy is basically dead. He believes AI could save it.

hydroptic@sopuli.xyz to Not The Onion@lemmy.world – 94 points – Marc Andreessen thinks comedy is basically dead. He believes AI could save it.
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I'm not sure if I should be laughing or crying. Probably both.

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I believe an ai could write soap-opera-style drama and crappy hallmark romance. Probably has been for a while. Anyone can write those things even if they don’t have a good grasp of language.

But comedy is really difficult; you have to actually understand people, and culture, and communication, and language, and timing, and shock, and a bunch of other super nuanced shit.

If he thinks ai is ready for that, he’s ready to lose his own job to ai, cuz what a joker… (see? Comedy is hard!)

I’ve seen what chatgpt outputs, it makes soap opera drama and crappy hallmark romance look like Shakespeare.