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When you really think about it, one of the fundamental flaws with AI is that it literally cannot create anything new because it requires training data that already exists. The best it can realistically do is mix and match traits of other animals until it creates something "new." If Star Wars was made today and entirely with AI it would not have the necessary training data to make anything even remotely close to what we got back in the 70s and would look like... This.
And this is a huge problem with pretty much all "AI" today. We say that they can "learn" and be "trained" but it's basically just large and incoherent database that recycles the data in a way that makes sense to humans. It's like if you were tasked with creating concept art for a movie or a game but your boss said you can't start with a blank image and can only modify existing concept art. We already see copy/paste movies, games, and books all the time and we already don't like it.
The concerning thing is that the tech bro executives in charge of the entertainment industry are full of this kind of nihilism where they truly believe nothing new needs to be made. They are these brain rot gen exers that think that the 80's were the peak of creative achievement and that we can just keep remixing 6 tent pole franchises and 2 variations of the hero's journey forever
The people in charge have no curiosity or imagination and their technologies are a reflection of their ideology.
"Two variations of the hero's journey?"
What's the second one?
Also, Dan Harmon would like a word about story circles.
I mean say what you will of the guy but he's not even close to being the moan derivative writer I know. Hell, I'd even argue he has had a few original thoughts at one point or another.
But yeah, you hit the nail on the head with the comment. However the whole "nothing new under the sun" thing is literally thousands of years old, so it's not like people haven't been complaining about similar things for ages.