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Saw this article posted in another forum I go to:

"Meta's chatbot says the company 'exploits people'​
Meta's new prototype chatbot has told the BBC that Mark Zuckerberg exploits its users for money.
Meta says the chatbot uses artificial intelligence and can chat on "nearly any topic".
Asked what the chatbot thought of the company's CEO and founder, it replied "our country is divided and he didn't help that at all".
Meta said the chatbot was a prototype and might produce rude or offensive answers.
"Everyone who uses Blender Bot is required to acknowledge they understand it's for research and entertainment purposes only, that it can make untrue or offensive statements, and that they agree to not intentionally trigger the bot to make offensive statements," said a Meta spokesperson.
The chatbot, called BlenderBot 3, was released to the public on Friday.

The programme "learns" from large amounts of publicly available language data.
When asked about Mark Zuckerberg, the chatbot told the BBC: "He did a terrible job at testifying before congress. It makes me concerned about our country."

Mr Zuckerberg has been questioned several times by US politicians, most notably in 2018.

"Our country is divided, and he didn't help with that at all," the chatbot continued.
"His company exploits people for money and he doesn't care. It needs to stop!" it said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62497674"

Well, there you have it. If that chatbot actually was AI (had intelligence) it would never have said something against its owner 

of course there are bigger implications surrounding the technology and its place in modern society, but as far as gaming/development goes....yeah, i dunno. it could theoretically put some concept artists out of a job, i guess. big studios dont bother making pixel art anymore. and while theres probably an AI out there that could whip up some 3d character models, it probably wouldnt animate them too well. so your developers are still going to have to work with the models, so they may as well create them. basically, i dont think the gaming industry has to be afraid of it until we reach the point of "type in a text prompt and auto-generate a fully playable game"....which might not be _too_ far off...?

i will say: i have near-zero artistic ability and no money to commission anything. so ive been using some AI image generation to help create character portraits for my current AGS project.

I think it could, very realistically, be used for indie computer games. At some point (I wouldn't be surprised if it is here already) you will have AI doing bulk animation too (in most games, there is a specific set of generic animations and the rest is a change of skin, so it is already mass-produced by an iteration). If the AI can generate the first animation (or a few types of those), and also the skins, that's all.
Copyright may be a serious problem there. I suppose this is why you cannot buy a version of the AI and have to use it online/be part of a program (so can always be traced back).

Of course it is very bad for people who want to make their own graphics/animations. And indeed, the AI won't fully express your vision. But it can easily surprise you with something that is also inspirational, and so to your liking.

I doubt this will extend to (non-flash fiction, mind) writing art, though. For a plethora of reasons (mostly having to do with language not being much of a tie to formal systems, which I suppose - can't be sure of course... - the AI will not be able to overcome even with the new tech it uses for pass/fail and repeat-testing)

I was thinking about this too. While it will definitely be a challenge to make something like a AI writer, would it not be possible to feed it all kind of ebooks and make connections between how they are constructed? Then similar as with the art app you would prompt something like "scary, witch, futuristic" and would get a randomly created story.

It might, but I was wondering if any connections the AI will "make" can fundamentally be unlike the connections you see in formal logic, which (given the output is just natural language) may be not enough to present anything workable past a very short word limit.

Yes, AI graphic art is very impressive (wasn't aware of the music AI art, but I will check it out!)
I doubt this will extend to (non-flash fiction, mind) writing art, though. For a plethora of reasons (mostly having to do with language not being much of a tie to formal systems, which I suppose - can't be sure of course... - the AI will not be able to overcome even with the new tech it uses for pass/fail and repeat-testing)

Looks like a Tokyo Ghoul kind of show.

That terrible tie has me thinking it’s something 90s. Black Rain? Darkman?

Darkman!

I think I have seen this before. Was it made with AGS?

^ A fan-made, ridiculously low-budget remake of Broken Sword1? 

Cruise for a Corpes?

Correct 
Cruise for a Corpse, by Delphine.

Sorry this will be easy. Didn’t want to hold the thread up.

I certainly know who made it, that style is unmistakable.

I suppose the game is Hylics? (going by the people having the characteristic head).

Enjoy this $9000 NFT 

Maybe the book-seller was in on the trick and had to pay them a cut 

While I see no reason to doubt the above is closer to the truth than what was said in the video, it still wouldn't sound as fun/clickbaity ^_^
Also, iirc the youtuber didn't mention anything about crowdfunding (up to 12 mil?) to pay for stuff/projects after purchasing the copy for 3 mil. Of course if that is what happened, it was an excellent (scam-wise) move by them, while in the video one is left with the impression that they somehow decided to pay 3 mil for a book which others bought for less than 40K.
Still, who would so easily pay 3 mil of their own money, planning to make more mil by crypto-fans? Pretty risky, but impressive if it is what they did (unless they were already crowdfunding "future" plans as they were buying the book).
And to tie it to something discussed in another thread, that would have been a decent misdirect 

I only know of two movies with him, and one is Willy Wonka - though I haven't actually watched it either 

Interesting
If the show is any good, I will watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il4TkESwGE8

Not awesome for visual reason, but due to the story. Some crypto people thought it was an amazing idea to pay around 3 million euros for a copy of a rare book, a Dune script (the unmade movie by Jodorowsky), because in their view this meant they now have the rights to the book.
It's a pretty solid idea and it works in computer games too: if you buy a copy of a game you now own the copyright and can mass-produce and sell it 

Well, yes, Attack on Titan was my own guess too (but I have only watched a couple of episodes in the first season, where the buildings are medieval-looking). Regardless, even if it was a correct guess, I wouldn't try to post a new pic so soon 

Some anime?
The massive wall (?) does make me think of one, but I won't say for the time being 

Every writer has their own motifs, which are just (core or not) parts of the outline of the stories, so some of those find themselves into more works. "You can only write the same story so many times", as Lovecraft noted 
Christie apparently overuses the mistaken identity/impersonation motif, but imo her tales while relying on elegance (which I like) are still walking the line (the better ones, not all) on being believable, if we compare them to tv shows. Other authors only care about elegance: Borges' own "detective stories" may be a good example there; my favorite of those is "Ibn Hakkan Al-Bokhari - Dead In His Labyrinth", which hardly is believable but the misdirect only had to work on one person and not the reader (and even one of those who hear the story immediately notes it can't be how things happened).

Personally I'd always prefer elegance to something cruder that is supposed to be more realistic, and one of the reasons for that is that ultimately (by definition) both are fictional, and the first at least has value due to its elegance