Spoilers Non Player Combat - New AI Generated Series on Youtube

[Tonguez]

So Visual effects Producer Tom Paton owner of AiMation Studios, has launched a new reality show Non Player Combat on Youtube, a lmited series in which six different AI contestants who have “no idea they’re not real” compete on a island divided into four 'hostile zones' to win 500,000 coins.

The NPCs get weapons, face deadly creatures and each other - and apparently have no limitations on kill or be killed PvP?

According to Paton the “Non Player Combat contestants aren’t performing for the camera, so in many ways they feel more genuine than your average human reality TV contestant ... the characters from the shows and films we watch are living their stories in real time.”

So what do you all think? Would you watch an entirely AI generated show? Is there a future for this 'new' medium? Does this spell the end of Hollywood and the fall of civilisation as we know it?

anyway heres episode 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEaeU0oznXM

What Is Non Player Combat? Breaking Down the AI Reality Show With Contestants Fighting to the Death

Visual effects producer Tom Paton launched his limited series Non Player Combat, where AI-controlled contestants compete on a remote island to win 500,000 coins.

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[FitzTheRuke]

Man, the only way that I could answer any of your questions would be to watch it.

And I am not sure that I want to.

 

[sevenbastard]

I don't support AI entertainment. I will resist the inevitable.

 

[Morrus]

Would you watch an entirely AI generated show?

I choose not to.

 

[Reynard]

Well, at least now we can get a season starring Elsa, Yoda, Hawkeye and Mickey.

 

[The Attic]

Would you watch an entirely AI generated show?

No.

 

[Stalker0]

So I faced the peril and dived in to episode 1. My quick spoiler filled review:

Spoiler

So the animation itself is pretty good. Its clearly AI, but most of it is pretty consistent. Its just stilted, repetitive, the usual AI issues.

There are two moments where the AI goes "off the rails".
1) One guy who gets poisoned vomits in what looks like from a horror movie.
2) At one point the Native American guy shifts to look more asian which took a moment to understand what had happened.

Plot wise....its completely ridiculous. 6 people are thrown into survival zones, and have to survie the wilderness AND are trying to kill each other. You have 2 special forces guys (ok solid), one ex-military (alright). Than you have a guy who grew up in the wilderness and is a survival expert (um...yeah...ok). Than you have a survival influencer (what?)....but at least she is a survival expert even if she has no combat training.

But lastly, we have this scrawny girl that went to prison for a long time. So little combat skills, little survival skills....what in the ever living F is she doing there? Here first scene is going "how does anyone tell what berries are good to eat".

and of course the special forces guy is giving a rifle with a scope, but fails to hit said scramny girl from a short distance where she is just standing there lookign like an idiot. hehe he then proceeds to say "if this is the caliber of competition I'll be going home early".


I will give it one point of credit....there is one line that I did think was bad ass "Excellence doesn't come with a reward, it is the minimum cost of respect". Ok fair play AI that goes in the book.

So yeah, this is bad. Its not interesting or really entertaining. But its functional, and give the AI another pass to streamline some of the stilted video and make skin look more organic and not like everyone has had bad plastic surgery....who knows what could pop out.