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Marc Andreessen thinks comedy is basically dead. He believes AI could save it. (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/nottheonion

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I'm not sure if I should be laughing or crying. Probably both.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I believe an ai could write soap-opera-style drama and crappy hallmark romance. Probably has been for a while. Anyone can write those things even if they don’t have a good grasp of language.

But comedy is really difficult; you have to actually understand people, and culture, and communication, and language, and timing, and shock, and a bunch of other super nuanced shit.

If he thinks ai is ready for that, he’s ready to lose his own job to ai, cuz what a joker… (see? Comedy is hard!)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’ve seen what chatgpt outputs, it makes soap opera drama and crappy hallmark romance look like Shakespeare.

[–] Hackworth -3 points 5 months ago

I'm sorry, but that's a skill issue.