A unending replication of Seinfeld generated by AI has attracted hundreds of viewers on Twitch.
The stream, which has aired continuous since December 14 final yr, is sort of totally generated by algorithms. It’s titled Nothing, Forever, a reference to the ‘90s sitcom being the so-called “show about nothing”.
Created by Skyler Hartle and Brian Habersberger, the present makes use of a mixture of machine studying, generative algorithms and cloud providers to create a Seinfeld parody, utilizing OpenAI’s GPT-3 language mannequin.
Nothing, Forever options animated variations of the principle Seinfeld solid, together with Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer, however with dialogue that always doesn’t make sense, characters who get lost aimlessly, and a badly-timed snort observe.
the AI generated countless seinfeld is kinda beginning to get the hold of it pic.twitter.com/odv8qalav4
— jocelyn romo (@theeroamer) February 2, 2023
Speaking concerning the mission to Vice, Hartle mentioned: “The actual impetus for this was it originally started its life as this weird, very, off-center kind of nonsensical, surreal art project. But then we kind of worked over the years to bring it to this new place. And then, of course, generative media and generative AI just kind of took off in a crazy way over the past couple of years.”
Explaining the way it works on Reddit, one of many creators wrote: “We set out to build something weird, new, and novel, and this is what we ended up with. Aside from the artwork and the laugh track you’ll hear, everything else is generative, including: dialogue, speech, direction (camera cuts, character focus, shot length, scene length, etc), character movement, and music.”
At the time of writing, the stream presently has over 12,000 viewers on Twitch.
Viewers have since shared clips of bizarre moments from the stream on social media. You can verify some out under.
AI seinfeld on twitch is unhinged and that i cant cease watching pic.twitter.com/0Rx3yJPFUr
— JDodd 🥊 ALGS (@_jdodd) February 1, 2023
lmao ai seinfeld twitch stream has gotta settle down the mathematics trainer story is an excessive amount of pic.twitter.com/3seL5qfKul
— Sean Naughton (@NeanSaughton) February 3, 2023
The Twitch infinite Seinfeld AI has gained sentience. pic.twitter.com/EKJvYEthGc
— sluggard (@FemaleBayonetta) February 3, 2023