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Well there's a lot of fun things to talk about. And let's see, first of all there's an AI-created clip of South Park. So AI wrote, directed, and animated a little South Park episode. I saw a tweet saying that this was looking like the beginning of the end of humans creating. Well I didn't say it that way but it looked like the beginning of one person being able to create an animated series. Just tell it what topic and create a little show for you.

However I watched that little show just to see how good an AI was and it can't write. It can't write at all. I consider it ad agency quality writing. Now if you're a professional writer that's like the deepest insult because ad agencies are the worst writers. Have you seen a commercial? They don't hire humorists to write the commercial. If you're an ad agency you think you use skills so people who studied some advertising think they can write jokes. So that's why all of your insurance commercials are so lame.

I've got a good idea for a joke. How about I don't know, let me think, come up with something original. Original. I'm working for the ad agency. Something nobody's seen on a commercial. I've got it. We're going to make a white male look like an idiot. Has anybody done that yet on an insurance commercial? I feel like that'll be groundbreaking. A dull white male who's incompetent in everything. I think that will be shocking and amazing. People will be talking about it. They could go viral. That's what ad agencies think. What has everybody already done before that wasn't good and maybe we should do some more of that.

So the writing is terrible. Now AI of course can never write South Park for an obvious reason. Do you know the obvious reason? Because the only thing that makes South Park funny is that it's inappropriate. That's all. That's the whole joke. I mean you're extremely clever and well written and yeah it's a national treasure so South Park is amazing but it wouldn't be funny if they could never be inappropriate. So AI only can be appropriate and South Park is only funny if it's inappropriate. How could it ever solve that? It has nothing to do with how good AI could be. It's limited by humans to never be good. It's designed to be bad. It's actually designed not to be funny.

So here's the other thing that I'm going to add that you just won't see anywhere else as far as I know. This is just my own personal theory that I've never seen anybody else say. Part of what makes you enjoy humor writing is imagining that the people who wrote it or in some cases performed it are going to get in trouble. Now you don't think of it that way but if you don't feel danger for the writer or the presenter then it doesn't really trigger you. It doesn't become viral. It doesn't become anything. It's the sense of danger of a human being that makes it interesting to us, right?

Because if you said to me, "Hey Scott, there's something dangerous happening to a toaster a block away," I'd say, "What?" "Yeah there's something to a toaster a block away." And I'd say, "Is it my toaster?" "No, a toaster." "Well it's somebody's good toaster. They're rooting." "No it's not even really a new toaster. It's actually a broken toaster that somebody's abusing." Would you care? No, because it's a toaster. You wouldn't care at all.

So when AI writes something even if it could say something at the moment it can, but you could easily imagine they could teach it to do that. If they taught it to be dangerous you would say to yourself, "So what? There's a toaster in danger." So AI is putting itself in danger by just repeating some patterns that we take as provocative but nobody's in danger.

Yeah you'll never want to watch AI art because you'll know it didn't come from a person. Because the amazing thing about art is that a human made it. If you've ever been confused and thought that the amazing thing about art is that you enjoy looking at it, do you think that? Do you think the reason that you look at the great masters, the Da Vincis, you think it's because you like how the picture looks? Literally nobody likes how those pictures look. You wouldn't buy that photo if it were not made by Da Vinci. It's the fact that a human made it. That's the entire art. It's not art without that. It's not the picture. It has no value.

Even the greatest artists in the world, you know the Jackson Pollocks, depending on the impressionists, it doesn't even matter what genre you're in. The only thing that makes it art is that a human being made it. And if you don't think that's going to be true for music as well then I don't think you understand music either. Music is interesting because your brain says, "Wow, people made that. I would like to meet those people." That's it.

If you're the greatest composition and song that took any trick that you could make a hit song and put it all in one song so it had everything but you knew AI made it, you'd listen to it once. You'd say, "Oh that was actually a pretty good song the AI made." There you'd never be interested again because it wasn't from a human. People are interested in themselves, period. If you don't understand that then you don't understand really anything about why people are about to care about themselves and that's the end of the analysis.

Now you say, "Scott, Scott that's crazy. They care about their family." That's caring about themselves. Their family is just an extension of themselves, right? If somebody in your family dies that hurts you, right? They're not just separate entities although they're also that. They are you, right? When you see somebody who looks like you getting hurt that's you. That's you. The reason you care less, it's terrible to say it, you care less if somebody looks