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<\/p>\nA UK producer is behind what has been billed as the \u201cworld\u2019s first\u201d completely AI-generated reality show.<\/p>\n
Coventry-based AiMation Studios has produced four-part Non Player Combat, a reality entertainment format described as a cross between The Hunger Games, Fortnite and The Traitors.<\/p>\n
The show sees contestants battle polar bears, venomous snakes and each other to the death for only one to win the 500,000 \u2018coin\u2019 prize.<\/p>\n
It has been devised so that all characters on screen, from the six contestants to the host and deadly animals, are all entirely made using AI.<\/p>\n
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The AI contestants were each trained on hundreds of pages of detailed backstories and have built personalities that know which school they attended, who they \u2018fell in love with\u2019, their favourite food, the challenges they\u2019ve faced, the crimes they\u2019ve committed and what killing and dying means to them.<\/p>\n
To give the show as much authenticity as possible, they have been machine taught to be susceptible to the same vulnerabilities as a human would be, from disease to wild animals and the need to eat and drink to stay alive. They also make autonomous choices on hiding, collaborating, survival and how to kill.<\/p>\n
The first episode of Non Player Combat launch on YouTube today (8 December) and Tom Paton, founder and chief exec of AiMation, said he is in talks with global broadcasters interested in acquiring the show, which is expected to attract 18-35s and those interested in gaming.<\/p>\n
AiMation Studios was also behind 2024\u2019s Where the Robots Grow, one of the first AI-generated feature films.<\/p>\n
Paton said: \u201cIt all means nothing unless you care about the players. If the audience doesn\u2019t fall in love with the characters, then it\u2019s pointless.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe future lies where the characters from the shows and films we watch, are living their stories in real time, and it\u2019s those stories we are seeing edited down.<\/p>\n
\u201cNon Player Combat contestants aren\u2019t performing for the camera, so in many ways they feel more genuine than your average human reality TV contestant.\u201d<\/p>\n
Non Player Combat was created using advanced AI technology alongside AiMation\u2019s specially developed in-house tool Omnigen-01 and\u00a0the company has launched an app, dubbed \u2018the Uber of AI content\u2019, which allows users to view content in its new GVOD format, and another for creating long-form AI productions.<\/p>\n
Episodes of Non Player Combat will drop weekly on YouTube and AiMation\u2019s app.<\/p>\n
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Paton said audiences are much more accepting of the tech\u2019s use in entertainment than before and suggested those makeing anti-AI statements are stymieing innovation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis particular audience is already okay with characters not being real. When they see the show and someone explains it\u2019s not real, it\u2019s AI, they\u2019ll say \u2018who cares? The question is, do you actually care that it\u2019s AI if you\u2019re entertained? I doubt it, and that\u2019s all that counts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think someone like Guillermo Del Toro yelling \u2018F*** AI\u2019 is not only eye-rolling, it\u2019s gatekeeping. How is that not just the long way round of telling a young person experimenting with AI that their voice doesn\u2019t count because it\u2019s not the \u2018approved\u2019 method?<\/p>\n
\u201cMedia has always diversified. Cinema didn\u2019t kill TV TV didn\u2019t kill home video, streaming didn\u2019t kill cinema. Some people still swear vinyl sounds better, but that doesn\u2019t mean Spotify shouldn\u2019t exist.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A UK producer is behind what has been billed as the \u201cworld\u2019s first\u201d completely AI-generated reality show. Coventry-based…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-305563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}