Would you support AI-generated recreations of destroyed game shows?

[SamJ93]

Obviously, this is a controversial topic--and not something I'm completely in favor of--but just thought I'd throw it out there for discussion. If, in the near future, it became possible to generate fully accurate re-creations of Eye Guess or the original Split Second, would you welcome it as a preservation of history, or would you consider it disrespectful to the actual creators?

[JasonA1]

Not in support. It would not be a preservation of history, it would be something entirely different. The people on YouTube putting up their own renders of gameboards to accompany existing show audio is more than enough for me.

-Jason

[BrandonFG]

What Jason said. In the meantime, I'm okay with having the few episodes of the obscurities that exist.

[Matt Ottinger]

You must be talking about creating original episodes, because you're never going to have a full transcript of an old show with all the question and all the answers and who got this one and and who missed that one, and the fee plugs and the asides and adlibs by the host and everything else that goes into a barely scripted program like that.  So now you're not talking about "preserving history."  The words you're looking for are "creating fiction."

[Dbacksfan12]

Very much no.  I've found AI to be a useful tool on occasion.  In my opinion only, things like this are doing too much.

[NickintheATL]

Given my cringe at having to sit through a lot of AI-aided "HD remasters" of Price episodes lately that mangled on-camera printed text all over the place.... no, thank you.

[SuperMatch93]

Given what I've seen of AI-slop clips of TPIR on Sora, I don't think recreations of game shows in the past would turn out much better. I'll settle for my recurring dreams of watching lost episodes of the original Sale of the Century.

/seriously, they're weird and frighteningly realistic
//my dreams, that is

[Stackertosh]

No, i said it before Ai should be a tool to help assist.


My biggest worry is they are going to try to create Ai tv shows.

[Chelsea Thrasher]

I despise generative AI on the principle. I'm watching in real time as mindless empty suits use it to justify putting hard working professionals out of business for soulless, half-baked, error-ridden crap, and it's reigning hell on independent artists, writers, etc.  Absolutely tf not.  I would genuinely rather see the Sony and Fremantle video libraries burn to the ground before one single second of re-creation slop was generated just to satisfy some fanboys for whom it's *never* enough.  I don't want to see Snap Judgment that badly.

[Robert Hutchinson]

I would rather see the most awkward, unprofessional, mixture-of-Minecraft-and-Powerpoint fan recreation of an episode, a dozen times over, than to watch an AI-generated episode. For most of the reasons stated above.

[Joe Mello]

If it's to provide visuals to audio-only recordings, we have ways of doing that and are being done right now.

If it's to make shows from wholecloth 1) how are you or the computer to know they're accurate? and 2) we have people who already do that and also are unashamed to throw in Sonic the Hedgehog or whomever for good measure.

If it's for you to play the game yourself, there's any number of methods and media to do that, too. I can't imagine that the same kind of people who made multi-user dungeon games in the 70's and 80's weren't also thinking about ways to play Password or Price is Right over the computer.

So I don't see where the use case is, nevermind the point.

[Kevin Prather]

Given my cringe at having to sit through a lot of AI-aided "HD remasters" of Price episodes lately that mangled on-camera printed text all over the place.... no, thank you.

I've heard this mentioned several times, but I have not noticed it even once. Can you point me to an example or two, maybe using clips on the YouTube channel?