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Fully AI-Generated Sitcom Launches on YouTube

PhilNote: this is "fully AI-generated" by humans using AI tools to manually iterate the script, images, sounds, shots, etc. In other words; 'AI as a tool' is nowhere near the implied meaning of "fully AI-generated")

A completely AI-generated sitcom has officially launched on YouTube.

Produced by the U.K.-based company ModeLabs.ai, the new comedy series "No Big Deal" follows an eccentric team at investment firm Janus as they search for the next billion-pound business idea, with their ventures routinely ending in disastrous results.

The series was created by Andrew Dickinson, a former angel investor and investment manager who drew directly from his own career. ...

"Every storyline began with a real incident that has been exaggerated and expanded for comic effect. I also wrote all of the original music used throughout the series, which was performed and recorded with the help of my good friend and outstanding musician Andy Pike." ...

"Nobody questions whether the CGI in a Marvel film is 'cheating,'" he said. "People judge entertainment by how it makes them feel, not by the tools used to create it."

Hawthorne asserted that the software functioned purely as an instrument to realize an independent script. ...

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