www.broadwayworld.com: Alexis Ohanian, cofounder of Reddit and founder of venture capital firm Seven Seven Six, said he believes that live theater and sports events will become increasingly popular as artificial intelligence reshapes the entertainment industry. Speaking on the "On Purpose with Jay Shetty" podcast this week, Ohanian described a future in which AI-driven entertainment pervades everyday life.
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I one hundred percent agree with Alexis Ohanian's predictions. When i saw this article I myself gasped because even I in fact have had this exact same prediction and have been saying this for literal years. I think it's really cool to see the co-founder of reddit voicing the prediction that live theater will grow more popular because of our fatigue from ai content. Even AI aside, since covid people have still felt very isolated. I think isolation will be the one of the prevalent and recurring issue of this age and in our generation. Content that is already pre recorded, highly edited, and mass produced already feels a bit separate from us when it is in everything. As pre recorded production technologies advance, the content grows further and further from live human experiences. live theater, sports, and music performances are unique every single time they are performed, and encourage community contact, effectively fighting isolation.
My Interpretation and Argument class in the fall semester was about Generative AI, and what that means for various fields. This article supports a great deal of the content of that class. Essentially, the more ‘human’ fields will thrive while AI grows to overpower ‘colder’ fields due to an increased sentiment that human connection is scarce as a business entity. I’m certainly glad to hear this of theatre, but I’m interested in the sports aspect of this. The money from the streaming / television aspect of the NFL and other sports would dip (or rather, change) but the in-person aspect would increase - I wonder, how would this change the infrastructure around sports events? The physical infrastructure, the digital ticket process, the marketing, etc, would all need to adapt. Though, I suppose the process wouldn’t be too stark, given such an adaptation would need to conform to the gradual change in human preference, despite the high rate of growth in AI.
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