I'm curious as to why the dialogue is so bad. What AI is this using? When I ask ChatGPT to write a scene, the results are usually somewhat funny:
INT. JERRY'S CAR - DAY
Jerry and George are driving down the road, with Jerry behind the wheel.
Jerry: (gazing at the cup holder) This car is such a piece of junk, it doesn't even have a proper cup holder.
George: What are you talking about? It has a cup holder right there!
Jerry: (skeptical) That's not a cup holder, that's just a little indentation in the dash.
George: It's a cup holder, Jerry! I've used it a million times.
Jerry: (sarcastically) Oh, well if you've used it, then it must be a proper cup holder.
George: (defensive) Hey, I've never had a problem with it.
Jerry: (exasperated) That's because you don't have any standards. A real cup holder should be able to hold a variety of cup sizes, not just the tiny little cups you drink out of.
George: (scoffing) That's ridiculous, Jerry. Who needs a cup holder that big?
Jerry: (serious) I do, George. I like to drink my coffee in a real cup.
George: (rolling his eyes) You and your fancy coffee cups.
Jerry: (smiling) Hey, I have standards, George. What can I say?
George: (laughing) I guess that's what makes you, you.
Jerry: (laughing) And that's what makes you, you.
They both burst into laughter as the car pulls up to a stop light.
That's actually extremely impressive, even for chat GPT. Not only is it a coherent scene, the humour emerges from a disagreement about an incidental detail in the lived environment. While situated in a realistic situation that's typical of the series. With the detail in question being a real environmental detail of that situation. George is irate and Jerry sarcastically winds him up. It literally could be segment from a real episode (bar the ending). So we have (an impersonation of) theory of mind, coherent understanding of setting, a narrative structure etc.
Compared to the infinite Seinfeld, which appears composed of disconnected setup -> response type gags, it's night and day.
> While situated in a realistic situation that's typical of the series.
That's a bit of a low bar.
> With the detail in question being a real environmental detail of that situation. George is irate and Jerry sarcastically winds him up.
And that's what you typically get from trying to replicate statistical data from the series.
It's a very good impersonation of a theory of mind, but it's an impersonation. The most surprising part is that when asked for a Seinfield episode, it actually tries to construct a Seinfield episode. But somehow, that's that part that least impress most people.
I can't find the post I saw from the creator, but apparently this is something they have been working on for years, well before ChatGPT. They created their own script generator.
I thought the dialog was amazing? It's generating conversations and a script for a TV show, are you expecting it to be as good as the original? It's crazy that they can carry out a conversation from start to end about a specific topic.
I wonder how much of a copyright violation this must be. I mean, they obviously fed it a lot of Seinfeld scripts for it to understand the characters and humor. I know HN likes to say "fair use" but I wonder how Hollywood's lawyers feel about that
This is the question I have about feeding scripts to AI. If I watched a ton of Seinfeld and came up with my own idea about a script, is that a copyright violation? Whats the difference between that and an AI bot learning it? I don't think Hollywood or anyone can reasonably expect people to consume some sort of media (whether its a book, tv show, music) and not come up with their own interpretations and ideas around it.
Fanfilms are actually a fair use case I learned recently (went down a rabbit hole after discovering the wide world of Friday the 13th fan made sequels)
INT. JERRY'S CAR - DAY
Jerry and George are driving down the road, with Jerry behind the wheel.
Jerry: (gazing at the cup holder) This car is such a piece of junk, it doesn't even have a proper cup holder.
George: What are you talking about? It has a cup holder right there!
Jerry: (skeptical) That's not a cup holder, that's just a little indentation in the dash.
George: It's a cup holder, Jerry! I've used it a million times.
Jerry: (sarcastically) Oh, well if you've used it, then it must be a proper cup holder.
George: (defensive) Hey, I've never had a problem with it.
Jerry: (exasperated) That's because you don't have any standards. A real cup holder should be able to hold a variety of cup sizes, not just the tiny little cups you drink out of.
George: (scoffing) That's ridiculous, Jerry. Who needs a cup holder that big?
Jerry: (serious) I do, George. I like to drink my coffee in a real cup.
George: (rolling his eyes) You and your fancy coffee cups.
Jerry: (smiling) Hey, I have standards, George. What can I say?
George: (laughing) I guess that's what makes you, you.
Jerry: (laughing) And that's what makes you, you.
They both burst into laughter as the car pulls up to a stop light.
End Scene.