By Emmy-winning San Francisco startup Fable Studio have announced Showrunner, a new animated streaming video-on-demand service powered by generative artificial intelligence.
The company says the platform can write, voice and animate episodes of TV series with a prompt of just a couple of words from users.
Under the initial release, users can watch AI-generated series and create their own content – complete with the ability to control dialogue, characters and visual shots among other controls.
Ten animated shows of various genres and styles will be available at launch, all mostly made with AI tools – they include a Silicon Valley satire, a dark horror anime,and an anthology series.
The company’s CEO Edward Saatchi says: “The vision is to be the Netflix of AI. Maybe you finish all of the episodes of a show you’re watching and you click the button to make another episode. You can say what it should be about or you can let the AI make it itself.”
The announcement for what the company dubs the start of the ‘simulated show revolution’ comes as controversy swirls over A.I. and its potential to streamline and or impact production, and the thorny issues that result over copyright infringement and worker displacement.
Fable previously released an AI-generated episode of “South Park” to showcase its technology, an episode mocked online. Nonetheless, this is all being seen as a proof of concept for what AI tools will soon allow viewers to do including more actively engage with content.
Fable aims to keep costs down by having users create the content that others will watch.
Source: THR
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