It’s been described as the Netflix of AI and it could soon let you create your very own shows. Or at least new animated episodes of existing ones.
As the Hollywood Reporter puts it:
“Generative artificial intelligence is coming for streaming, with the release of a platform dedicated to AI content that allows users to create episodes with a prompt of just a couple of words.
Fable Studio, an Emmy-winning San Francisco startup, on Thursday announced Showrunner, a platform the company says can write, voice and animate episodes of shows it carries. Under the initial release, users will be able to watch AI-generated series and create their own content — complete with the ability to control dialogue, characters and shot types, among other controls.”
Adds Indie Wire:
“A new app wants to become the ‘Netflix of AI,’ allowing users to watch one of its AI-generated animated series on-demand. Not yet moved? The Showrunner app then allows the viewers to use AI to create their own episodes of the show.
AI production company Fable Studios has today launched the app in its Alpha stage to the public. With it, they’re releasing the first two episodes of an animated series created with Showrunner’s AI tools, a tech-industry satire called ‘Exit Valley’ that looks quite similar to the animation style seen on ‘South Park‘ or ‘Rick and Morty.’
The first episode, which you can watch here, imagines Gold Rush-era ancestors of Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, and the Winklevoss twins fighting to the death over the valuable element in a satirical take on the cutthroat battle over Facebook. Even their ‘South Park’ is…not quite “South Park.” And we’re not just talking about the animation.
The studio is targeting 22 episodes for a first season. Viewers can input prompts to generate their own episode of the series, selecting the characters, storylines, and shot types. The best user-prompted episodes could one day even become part of the series’ official canon.
‘The next Netflix won’t be purely passive; you will be at home, describe the show you’d like to watch and within a minute or two start watching,’ Fable Studios CEO Edward Saatchi said in a statement. ‘Finish a show that you enjoy and make new episodes, and even put yourself and your friends in episodes — fighting aliens, in your favorite sitcom, and solving crimes.'”
I haven’t gotten involved with Generative AI tools yet despite my obvious interest in AI. For now I’m content to write about everything happening rather than dabble with the tools myself. What I’ve been waiting for is something like Showrunner. Something to enable me to bring all of my TV show and movie ideas to life rather than just generate creative images. My interest lying more in film making and entertainment than pure art.
If Showrunner AI is focusing on animated series to start out then it seems like I’ll have to wait a little big longer before this same concept can be supported by live action content. But if that happens then we might truly have a Netflix of AI moment. A future in which we create the content that we consume instead of just passively digesting what Hollywood throws at us. Allowing us to let our imaginations run wild and live out our wildest fantasies.
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