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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tyler.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Tyler Perry halted him a man wearing women's garb. He
had an eight hundred million dollars studio expansion that he
was going to do in Atlanta, biggest investment he's made
practically ever in growing his empire. Eight hundred million dollars
that he's canceled because of the developments and artificial intelligence,
(00:24):
which rendered it not needed. Wow an interview with The
Hollywood Reporter last week, Perry expressed the need for the
industry to get ahead of AI's potential impact, saying there's
got to be some sort of regulations in order to
protect us. If not, I don't see how we survive
at all. He went on to specifically site open aiyes
text to video.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Tool SORA, which I know nothing about.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And had never heard of before, as the impetus for
the expansion stoppage. I've been watching Next to Video, right,
you just say, you write out prompts and it creates
the video.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
YEA, well, of course it does it.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
If it can do still picks, why wouldn't it be
able to do video, which is a series of still pictures,
and at least if you're talking about animation.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
And apparently it's pretty good at it.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I've been watching AI very closely and watching the advancements
very closely. I was in the middle of, and had
been planning for the last four years, an eight hundred
million dollar expansion at the studio, which would increase the
backlot and tremendous size. We were adding twelve more sound stages.
All of that is currently and definitely on hold because
of Sora and what I'm seeing and able to do.
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And he talked about a whole bunch of stuff he
is able to do for his next movie that would
have taken tons of money, lots of people, studios, and
he just did it by talking into his computer and
it was perfectly okay for his movie.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Let me repeat for the emptienth time that throughout human
history technology has always created more jobs than it's eliminated
till now.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
He said he's not against AI.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
He just says he doesn't understand how the industry is
going to survive it.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And that's a pretty decent question, is it.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
You don't have to be against something to understand its effects, right,
You've got to be realistic about it. I worry my
kid is heading to law school, and I'm just I'm
worried about the future of that, although for the foreseeable future,
getting back to our discussion of Google's Gemini and how
terrible it is, they're not going to be replacing teams
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of lawyers with AI yet, although maybe at the lowest
level where you check cases and stuff. Although no, wait
a minute, because it's hallucinated non existent.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Cases, right, and they haven't figured out how to stop
that yet. But for particular things like, hey, I need
a scene with snow in Colorado. This is actually an
example that Tyler Perry gave and trees and snow and
birds and blah blah blah, and it just created that
without having to have a sound studio or any CGI
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or any of the expensive travel location or anything like that,
just created it by saying it into the computer.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Oh man, Yeah, that's something in it. Wow, that sounds
like crazy fun.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Right, unless you've dedicated your life to trying to learn
how to do that. I thought it was a value.
When some you lose, some you lose.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Hey, what'sits What was the name of that program? Again,
I probably can't afford it, but hey, soa give me
a scene in the rocky mountains of Colorado. There's already
foot of snow on the ground. More heavy snow is falling.
I hear the unmistakable crunch of the hoofs of an
elk coming out of the forest. Atop the elk rides
a nude woman. She is six feet tall, blonde of hair.
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She pulls out of the three point fifty seven magnum
points it in my direction. You know, you could just,
particularly after I don't know, burning one down or something like.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That, you could come up with some wild stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
An entire movie. Also, it looks like a big budget production. Wow,
or it's just so surreal and rediculous. People burn one
down and watch it and are amused as hell.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Might be a new art form.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Armstrong and Getty