Video DwarfCast #3 – ChatG&T Features Posted by Ian Symes on 31st March 2024, 12:01 If there’s one thing we like more than speculating wildly about all things Red Dwarf, it’s pissing about with the latest silly internet fads. For our latest Video DwarfCast, we combine the two by using ChatGPT to answer all those burning questions. What is Red Dwarf: Titan going to look like? Who’s going to play the young versions of our favourite characters? What would a redesigned Starbug look like? Or a redesigned skutter? How would Kryten do on Robot Wars? And can 2024 artificial intelligence do a better job of drawing Rimmer on the bog than Kryten can? (As should be perfectly clear from the video itself, we in no way condone the use of A.I. as a replacement for human artistry in any way. It’s a laugh, innit?)
That last paragraph basically sums up how I feel about AI. It’s bound to be abused and has the potential to be quite dangerous, but I still giggle at absurd prompts. Like when I used the less-sophisticated Dall-E to pop Noel Edmonds into Red Dwarf:
Speaking of AI, I was recently wondering if it would be possible for someone to remake the novels but with facsimiles of the cast playing themselves rather than Chris’ impressions, and how weirdly “off” it would all sound. On the subject of the vid, it was lovely to see Dr. Frasier Crane pop up as Kryten in Robot Wars: The SS Years.
That was fucking hilarious. I think it got twisted by the way, when it thought Noel Coward could be a “play on words”. As in, there’s Santa, and also NOEL Coward like the usage of the word Noel as another name for Christmas. It was so confused, it was clutching at so many straws. So many “could be” and “might be” through the whole thing. Almost as if it knew that if it got something wrong, it was being recorded for people on the Internet to laugh at it. Kryten in Robot Wars – it says due to his pacifist nature he may try to reason with the combatants. I think the bot is making the fatal error of mistaking Kryten’s characterisation as “basically C3PO” (wouldn’t be the first to make that mistake)
Unsolicited Santa was hilarious, my guess is a literal misinterpretation of ‘red Dwarf,’ in the Tolkien sense, like the cat in the Cat image. The equivalent of 1 or 2 first-page search results giving you a secondary interpretation.
Nonsense aside, the image analysis at the end was impressive, even if it took a while to deduce with any confidence that the screencap from a TV show featuring Kryten from Red Dwarf was likely from Red Dwarf. Rob and Doug’s images should be fair game as public figures, but better to come down on the overly cautious side when it’s not sure.
This was fun (especially the surprise appearance of Santa) but there’s still something about obviously AI-generated images that induces a revulsion feeling in me. Not for ethical reasons (although there’s that whole argument too) but just that warped, grotesque sense of stuff that doesn’t make sense because it’s been processed through an artificial mind that doesn’t understand how basic aspects of real life work.
there’s still something about obviously AI-generated images that induces a revulsion feeling in me. Those animated images down the side were fucking repulsive.
but just that warped, grotesque sense of stuff that doesn’t make sense because it’s been processed through an artificial mind that doesn’t understand how basic aspects of real life work. That hasn’t stopped you enjoying past Dwarfcasts. Lovely stuff chaps, could have watched loads more of that.
Living in fear of the day when the Idea for an Episode thread finally becomes sentient and kills us all.
It’s funny, even when used in the main context it should be used for – pissing about – these AI responses still make me feel kind of uneasy. It’s so close to seeming like actual intelligence, and yet at the same time, nowhere near. It’s like the uncanny valley effect. But it does work for getting a certain brand of weird result – like what is up with that suggested Titan cast? None of them are known for comedy (except for Jack Whitehall, depending on who you ask), 2 of them aren’t British, and Joe Keery and Letitia Wright haven’t played robots or computers as far as I know. This is how you know it’s not a genuine AI, because the responses aren’t actually logical at all.
I gave a bit of inside information, in regards to Rob and Doug a while back, but my post got deleted. I won’t give any more information. Sorry, chaps and ladies. Still, in regards to your discussion of sets and the manner in which Red Dwarf XI-Promised Land was, well… red! I never liked that. Here’s how I would have done things, given the opportunity… https://imgur.com/AnONsxr (download the image to see it in detail)
