The hit AI showNothing, Foreverthat has takenTwitchby storm recently made a meta joke about content created by artificial intelligence. The strange scene from theSeinfeld-inspired series has both amused and alarmed manyTwitchusers who have watched the clip.
Nothing, Foreverhas been streaming on a constant twenty-four-hour cycle every single day on the Twitch channel known as WatchMeForever. The channel, created by Mismatch Media, has one simple goal; generate a constant live stream of an AI series influenced by the classic sitcomSeinfeld. With the continuingrise in AI streamers,Nothing, Foreverflips the concept on its head and creates a never-ending show. There have been many recent ways companies have explored bringing AI into the entertainment sphere, butNothing, Forevermay be the first AI creation of its kind.
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In a clip from the show,the AI generated charactershappened to make a strangely self-aware joke about entertainment created artificially. The scene displays a back-and-forth between two characters as they discuss how scientists have created an AI that has the ability to do stand-up comedy, but then come to the conclusion that comedy should be left to humans. The conversation ends, followed by laughter from a studio audience, implying there was supposed to be a joke somewhere in the conversation; proving that jokes should be left in the hands of people.
According to WatchMeForever’s Twitch channel, the script forNothing, Foreveris provided by OpenAI’s GPT-3, the developers behind the viral chatbot ChatGPT. Since gaining popularity on Twitch, there have even beenpopular streamers donating moneyto have their own AI character added to the show. The only thing in the series that isn’t generated by machine learning and AI is the artwork and the classic sitcom laugh track that can be heard throughout the series.
With the rising power of AI, there is an influx of new people who are curious aboutthe capabilities of AIand what it could mean for the future of society. Whether it’s a complicated and impressive chatbot or something as silly and amusing asNothing, Forever, it’s still jarring to see an artificially generated creation make such a meta joke, even if its delivery falls flat. As the years pass, AI will become more advanced and fine-tuned which will create more exploration in entertainment like Mismatch Media has executed withTwitch’sNothing, Forever. Advancements like these make it both exciting and unnerving to see where AI will take the future of entertainment.
