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WWE Videos Made by a Glitching AI That Sounds Like It’s Being Strangled Are the Future of Entertainment
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WWE Videos Made by a Glitching AI That Sounds Like It’s Being Strangled Are the Future of Entertainment

Gizmodo·Mike Pearl·about 1 month ago
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There’s this guy named Nigel Richards, a professional Scrabble player from New Zealand, whose brain is not like yours or mine. He wins world championships in languages he doesn’t speak, like Spanish and French . The way he strategizes is, I suppose, recognizable as human thought, but just barely. I mean watch: Richards seems to have abstracted away the concept of a “word” entirely, transforming his brain into an engine designed to arrange tiles with differently-valued patterns on them, in sequences that lead to victory. In an era in which the world’s largest entertainment company is YouTube , an algorithmic software ecosystem that delivers the user-generated content it knows you will like before you know what you will like, entertainment is like a Scrabble board. And I believe a series of WWE YouTube documentaries apparently made with glitchy AI tools may just be a form of primitive, digital Nigel Richards.…

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