This AI-Generated, Endless Seinfeld-Like Show Paints A Wild Picture Of Entertainment's Future

The channel is called Watchmeforever, and it comes from a lab called Mismatch Media. The stream of the AI-generated sitcom “Nothing, Forever” goes on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. According to Kotaku, the show uses several different AI technologies including DALL-E, OpenAI GPT-3, and Stable Diffusion, and somehow spits out a sitcom that looks like “Seinfeld” in the uncanny valley. 

Sure, the AI has a hard time guessing how to make a sitcom. There’s a laugh track that laughs at lines that are not funny and sometimes the characters seem confused about where they are exactly. But, in spite of all that, it’s still clearly based on “Seinfeld.” The characters’ names are changed, but Yvonne Torres is clearly Elaine Benes, Fred Kastopolous is George Costanza, Zoltan Kakler is Kramer, and Larry Feinberg is Jerry. It even has interludes in a comedy club where Larry gives his dadaist version of a stand-up routine.

Responses on social media seem to be a mix of awe and absolute terror. “[W]ow they finally invented hell,” tweeted @toomanysnipers. “I fear this is where the singularity will be born and the earth will be taken over by a digital George Costanza,” joked @kevinely. Another Twitter user, @miujen_, wrote “The future of movies and TV will certainly be in the hands of AI and metaverse. Who wants to watch them?”

The show certainly sets up the possibility that AI-generated entertainment could become commonplace in the future. Still, artificial intelligence has a bit more to learn about how to tell a joke, how to keep a story coherent, and how human hands work. So, for now, it doesn’t seem like AI-generated content is going to put human television writers out of work just yet.

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