“So you’re saying you know a guy who built a jet out of cardboard?” This is a line from an OpenAI Seinfeld animation that runs 24/7 on twitch. I discovered it via Hacker News. You can watch it as of early February 2023, while it’s still possible (I have a feeling rights-holders will take down infringing content like this soon, if earlier legal battles involving AI and copyright are anything to go by).
Here’s how the creators describe the OpenAI Seinfeld (without actually naming the show):
What is this?
Nothing, Forever is a show about nothing, that happens forever. Kinda like popular sitcoms of the past, except that it never stops.Nothing, Forever is always-on, runs 365 days of the year, and delivers new content every minute.
Everything you see, hear, or experience (with the exception of the artwork and laugh track) is always brand new content, generated via machine learning and AI algorithms.
DISCLAIMER: Much of our generative content is provided through OpenAI’s GPT-3 and does not reflect views held by the creators of Nothing, Forever.
The top comment on the HN thread nails it:
This is probably the first time I’ve encountered something where “It’s so bad that it’s good” makes sense to me. I could not stop laughing. The exterior shot with the Seinfeld-inspired music. The laugh track at inappropriate times. They talk about going to a sushi restaurant, and when they’ve finally agreed to go, they sit down and don’t go anywhere. This is like the alien scientists who want to bring back humans after they’ve gone extinct, and end up cloning chimps. Bravo!
It’s true. The OpenAI Seinfeld is very strange, yet funny: weird dialogue, laugh tracks at the wrong moment, wooden delivery by synthetic voices, clumsy animation … yet if this is what someone can build out of the current generation of tools, imagine what we’ll see in 3 or 5 or 10 years.
Incidentally, the idea of AI-generated animation is not new. Remember Machinima? News at 7?