Meta has enlisted 28 celebrities to play AI chatbots with different personalities. One top creator was paid $5 million, per The Information.
Meta is paying the celebrity faces behind its AI chatbots as much as $5 million for 6 hours of work, report says::Meta has enlisted 28 celebrities to play AI chatbots with different personalities. One top creator was paid $5 million, per The Information.
Good. We don’t actually need horrendously wealthy entertainment professionals. They exist, I would guess, mainly due to the high barriers to entry within the entertainment industry, where getting on tv is very much a “who you know” not “what you know” kind of thing. Aka, corruption.
The internet has largely democratized this though, removing those barriers to entry almost completely. And there’s few things I love more than finding a good, newer youtuber, who is still super excited about it and putting a tremendous amount of effort into producing quality content. While some of them suffer the same sorts of problems as any other big business onc they get big, (cough, LinusTechTips, cough) not all of them do.
Anyhow, if the industry can’t touch a superstar entertainer’s image and fame without shelling out millions, it’s only a matter of time before they start to realize they don’t actually have to anymore, as attitudes start to shift away from mainstream Hollywood productions.
No, that’s grossly oversimplified. Just that actual performance talent is not nearly as rare as their compensation would indicate. There are a lot of Meryl Streeps that just never got the stroke of luck they needed. Now, that’s slowly changing. Slowly, for the past 20 years or so. It was wide scale broadband internet that kinda unlocked the possibility in the first place.
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Good. We don’t actually need horrendously wealthy entertainment professionals. They exist, I would guess, mainly due to the high barriers to entry within the entertainment industry, where getting on tv is very much a “who you know” not “what you know” kind of thing. Aka, corruption.
The internet has largely democratized this though, removing those barriers to entry almost completely. And there’s few things I love more than finding a good, newer youtuber, who is still super excited about it and putting a tremendous amount of effort into producing quality content. While some of them suffer the same sorts of problems as any other big business onc they get big, (cough, LinusTechTips, cough) not all of them do.
Anyhow, if the industry can’t touch a superstar entertainer’s image and fame without shelling out millions, it’s only a matter of time before they start to realize they don’t actually have to anymore, as attitudes start to shift away from mainstream Hollywood productions.
“Performance talent doesn’t exist, also: Ayn Rand”
No, that’s grossly oversimplified. Just that actual performance talent is not nearly as rare as their compensation would indicate. There are a lot of Meryl Streeps that just never got the stroke of luck they needed. Now, that’s slowly changing. Slowly, for the past 20 years or so. It was wide scale broadband internet that kinda unlocked the possibility in the first place.