Every reader has that one book they would love to see turned into a movie or a TV series. Maybe there were plans to adapt said book (like Delirium by Lauren Oliver) but they were canceled, leaving readers longing for more after seeing the pilot. Do you think it would be possible for fans to create more or less independent visual adaptations of a book, using generative AI? Like imagine you keep giving prompts to the AI of every book scene and then voice it over, would it be possible to get a satisfying result?
What do you guys think? What book would you love to see turned into a film?
by iwanttobelikeyou-oh
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AI is just a plagiarism machine. We want adaptions to be made with care and consideration not by a mindless pattern matching that didn’t actually think about context.
No thanks.
I have many books that I want to see turned into film. I have no books that I want to see touched by AI.
I would hate it and would not want any book turned into that shit
AI has no potential to do that because AI doesn’t understand why any novella-length story works.
People who adapt something can miss some of it. AI is(currently)incapable of getting any of it.
Creating imagery and video seems to be one of the few things ai is doing well so far. Ultimately, ai may be able to generate full feature films and TV shows from books and scripts. But that appears to still be a ways off at the moment, even for paid users.
Robert X. Cringley talked about this happening in his online column way back decades ago. It sure has taken a while to come true.
However, the main potential for this lies with the IP owners: not fans. Fans will get into all sorts of legal trouble sooner or later, I expect, doing this. Except of course for where the IP is in the public domain.
That sounds, putting it politely, fucking horrible
Authors are paid to have their books adapted into film and television. Using AI to adapt a written work is yet another way that AI could screw a writer out of financial reward for hard work.
It almost certainly wouldn’t understand any of the messages of the books beyond the surface level, not to mention that continuity between shots would be, at best, flawed. There’s also the fact that generative AI models rely on stolen artwork and writing to function. Overall, I’d rather just wait a few years for actual creatives to make the adaptation than have a lacklustre interpretation in a few minutes.