The company behind last year’s outrageous South Park AI episode generator is launching its own creation platform today, allowing users to make their own TV shows with AI.
The Simulation (formerly Fable Studio) announced 10 TV shows (web series) made with Showrunner, the company’s text-to-episode system, each in different styles, from anime to Pixar-style, to the cutout style of South Park.
“It’s the Netflix of AI,” founder and CEO Edward Saatchi told me. “Watch an episode, or make an episode.”
Hutzpa!, Exit Valley, Pixels, Sim Francisco and What We Leave Behind are all series set in the virtual world of Sim-Francisco. With a prompt of 10 to 15 words, users can generate scenes and episodes of ranging from two to 16 minutes, all with AI dialogue, voice, editing, different shot types, consistent characters and story development. Those who want to dive deeper can edit their episodes’ scripts, shots, voices and remake episodes, but Showrunner is targeted at non-technical, non-professional users.
“Generating a new TV show should be as easy as browsing Netflix for a show,” says Philipp Maas, co-creator of Showrunner.
As part of the launch Thursday, Showrunner released two episodes of Exit Valley, a Silicon Valley satire starring iconic figures like Musk, Zuck and Sam Altman. The show is an animated comedy targeting 22 episodes in its first season, some made by Fable and the rest made by users and selected by a jury of filmmakers and creatives. The other shows like Ikiru Shinu and Shadows over Shinjuku are set in Neo-Tokyo, in distinct anime worlds, and will open to user interaction later this year.
(Source: Forbes)
