# 'Nothing, Forever': A Continuously running AI-generated 'Sitcom' **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [February 3, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-forever-a-continuously-running-ai-generated-sitcom/979263 "2023-02-03T15:10:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-forever-a-continuously-running-ai-generated-sitcom/979263/1 "2023-02-03T15:10:34Z")
So there’s now an entirely AI generated, continuously running Seinfeld-pastiche show on Twitch called ‘[Nothing, Forever](https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever)’. It mainly seems to consist of minute-long absurd vignettes between its central characters, with interspersed laughter (no correlation to either purposeful, attempted, or accidental jokes I can discern), in a sort of voxel-graphic style. It’s… well, expectably weird, I suppose, but weird in strange ways, sometimes hovering just about on the threshold of making sense, then abruptly veering off in a different direction altogether. Not sure what to make of it, but it’s surprisingly easy to get sucked in for a few minutes; it sort of seems to generate a weird anticipation that’s never resolved, like a joke whose punchline is endlessly deferred. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2023, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-forever-a-continuously-running-ai-generated-sitcom/979263/2 "2023-02-03T16:57:49Z")
That sounds like 83% of all the sitcoms and 98% of SNL sketches I’ve watched. A world of expectant anticipatory pauses (with our without canned / studio-audience laughter) while I’m wondering what point I’m missing or why it would be funny to someone. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-forever-a-continuously-running-ai-generated-sitcom/979263/3 "2023-02-03T17:11:40Z")
It seems like the AI just thinks laughter is how you end a scene in a sitcom. The rest seems to just be trying to mimic a normal conversation. It has no idea that laughter is supposed to come after jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2023, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-forever-a-continuously-running-ai-generated-sitcom/979263/4 "2023-02-03T22:52:37Z")
Sitcoms are actually my favorite TV genre. One camera, three camera, laugh track, no laugh track - it doesn’t matter to me. That said, the last thing I want to watch is a series of one-minute absurd vignettes that stretch on into the endless future. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.E](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.e/32/8932_2.png) [@Mr.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.E)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-forever-a-continuously-running-ai-generated-sitcom/979263/5 "2023-02-06T00:22:55Z")
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a series of one-minute absurd vignettes— forever. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.E](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.e/32/8932_2.png) [@Mr.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.E)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-forever-a-continuously-running-ai-generated-sitcom/979263/6 "2023-02-06T16:16:35Z")
[Update: Nothing, Forever has been hit with a 14 day suspension thanks to a transphobic stand-up routine.](https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pymx/ai-generated-seinfeld-show-nothing-forever-banned-on-twitch-after-transphobic-standup-bit) Apparently the folks behind it had switched to an earlier AI model while troubleshooting an issue and that model didn’t have the guide rails that GPT 3.5 has. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-forever-a-continuously-running-ai-generated-sitcom/979263/7 "2023-02-06T19:07:11Z")
That is the risk of using an AI that gets its training data from the internet. People say a lot of racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, etc. stuff on the internet. Left unchecked, the AI is going to start repeating that stuff.