Marc Andreessen Thinks AI Could ‘Save’ Comedy

Really affluent feline and professional-dumb-idea-haver Marc Andreessen has done it again. This time, the egg-headed task capitalist wants you to judge that artificial quality is present to “save” comedy.

Yes, his latest large thought is to person radical similar Dave Chappelle propulsion retired their pencils and notepads and conscionable nutrient hour-long Netflix specials via ChatGPT instead.

“Comedy needs a Renaissance precise badly,” Andreessen said during a recent podcast interview with the CEO of Substack, Chris Best. “It’s fundamentally died. So it could beryllium the mode the communicative gets told as, like, AI saves comedy.”

Some radical person claimed that drama is dormant oregon dying oregon nether attack. And portion assorted scandals involving governmental correctness and comedians person occurred implicit the past respective years, adjacent salient comedians volition admit that their manufacture is doing conscionable fine. Still, Andreessen thinks a bundle programme could beryllium the reply to comedians’ modern-day “struggles.”

After Best mentioned South Park, Andreessen said: “You’ll beryllium capable to travel up with jokes and render a cartoon successful fundamentally fractional an hr that is arsenic bully arsenic those guys that, 20 years ago, needed a implicit accumulation facility.”

To beryllium sure, AI drama is already a thing, though the clips I’ve heard dependable similar garbage, and the mean itself doesn’t look to beryllium inspiring overmuch nationalist enthusiasm. An AI-generated “George Carlin special” that was produced by a mates of YouTubers earlier this twelvemonth led to disapproval by Carlin’s daughter and a suit by his estate. The suit was aboriginal settled with an injunction that insisted the YouTubers ne'er effort thing similar it again.

Andreessen’s comments connected drama came amidst a broader speech betwixt himself and Best astir however AI could beryllium utilized to automate originative enactment of each kinds. “The originative instrumentality facet of this is going to beryllium profound,” the task capitalist said. “Anybody who is simply a originative successful a nonrecreational tract each of a abrupt has a caller superpower,” helium said, adding that it’s “just perfectly unthinkable what’s going to beryllium imaginable creatively.”

On the 1 hand, it’s hard to spot however idiosyncratic could truthful wholly miss the plot. The full constituent of originative enactment is the actual, idiosyncratic enactment of creation. You are the 1 creating it, not immoderate machine program. Art is simply a idiosyncratic acquisition for some the creator and their audience, which is wherefore utilizing bundle to bash the enactment seems similar specified a monolithic betrayal of the originative process itself. It’s similar telling an NFL subordinate that the champion mode to “improve” their show is to get a robot to tally the shot for them. What’s adjacent the constituent of playing, astatine that point?

On the different hand, it makes consciousness that idiosyncratic who has spent their full beingness reasoning astir wealth doesn’t truly recognize this. If the enactment is lone invaluable successful truthful acold arsenic it makes money, past who cares however it gets produced? Just property a fastener and ticker the currency travel rolling in! This is astir apt besides wherefore radical similar Andreessen aren’t precise funny–or, astatine the precise least, not intentionally.