![]() But any idea that boundless customization is the way of the future seems to me to misunderstand the relationship between creator and audience and the negotiation that goes on between the two. There are a lot of ways that machine learning could harm actors and writers that's why it's an issue in the strikes. Without discovery - without the possibility of frustration, in fact - there are no stakes in the act of reading or watching. Even in a genre with rules like murder mystery (the crime will be solved) or romance (there will be a happy ending), there is always discovery. The enjoyment of fiction lives in the meeting of your mind as a reader or viewer with the specifics of other people's brilliant, weird, flawed, unexpected minds. This is why I cannot get excited about the idea of a bespoke, AI-generated movie that I order up like a pizza. I mean, I didn't think Ross and Rachel should have ended up together on Friends, but do I want to watch an AI-generated ending where she doesn't get on the plane? No! What would be the point? In other words, you can write the ending of your story or I can, but for you to write a menu and me to order from it feels like an uncanny valley of creation that satisfies nobody. If you want people to write their own endings, you're getting into the realm of fanfiction, and fanfiction requires people to have a lot more creative options, a lot more ways to go. you asked to get there? If people want to do that, they can just buy a set of finger puppets and play the thing out at home. But this? Picking an end point and watching yourself get there because. That's why this might have worked if your choices had not gone as you anticipated - picking Paul in that moment led you to end up single, something like that. I cannot get excited about the idea of a bespoke, AI-generated movie that I order up like a pizza. a total of 15 or so choices over the course of the movie? Something like that? Some of them matter a little, some matter almost not at all. I didn't count, but I would say I probably made. You pick the ending you want, and it gives it to you. I did not watch every minute of the other two ways for the story to go (it doesn't really lend itself to any particular linear or completist viewing in any handy way), but I explored the other possible storylines enough to learn that there's no particular cleverness - it's not as if you pick one but end up with another one, or no matter who you pick, you end up with the same guy, or something like that. ![]() I asked myself that too! That's why Paul was my choice, so I picked Paul, so Cami picked Paul, and she ended up with Paul, and. Now, you might ask yourself why a woman with a lovely boyfriend would suddenly leave him for either an old boyfriend she's been apart from for years or a rock star she met at work with whom she's spent a few hours. So in one scene (a scene that is not at the end of the movie!), Cami has to decide between Paul, Jack and Rex. The other two, who quickly turn up, turn out to be her old boyfriend, Jack (Jordi Webber), and a rock star she meets at work, Rex (Avan Jogia). But when she gets a tarot reading because she feels something is missing from her life, she learns that she has three possible suitors. She has a boyfriend, Paul, played by Scott Michael Foster. Above, Laura Marano as Cami and Jordi Webber as Jack in Choose Love.ĭirected by Stuart McDonald and written by Josann McGibbon, Choose Love is about a woman named Cami (Laura Marano) who works as a recording engineer. The idea that boundless customization is the way of the future misunderstands the relationship between creator and audience and the negotiation that goes on between the two.
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