Would you watch an AI television series?
Tom Paton, the creator of the new AI-generated reality series “Non Player Combat,” thinks many viewers will be quick to accept the futuristic project.
“The question is, do you actually care that it’s AI if you’re entertained? I doubt it, and that’s all that counts,” Paton said in a press release shared with People.
“Non Player Combat” is the first reality series based on a completely AI-generated premise. It features six AI contestants as they compete to survive in a dystopian setting. Described as a mix of “Fortnite,” “The Hunger Games” and “The Traitors,” the reality series forces contestants to battle deadly creatures including polar bears and poisonous snakes.
“Non Player Combat contestants aren’t performing for the camera, so in many ways they feel more genuine than your average human reality TV contestant,” Paton said.
Although the contestants aren’t human, Paton says they have intricate backstories.
“It all means nothing unless you care about the players. If the audience doesn’t fall in love with the characters, then it’s pointless,” Paton said.
The four-part series debuted on YouTube and AiMation on Monday, Dec. 8. It was created using AiMation’s in-house tool, Omnigen-01. According to a press release, “AI calls the shots” on every decision in “Non Player Combat.”
The show’s target audience is the video game community, who Paton says are “already OK with characters not being real.”
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AiMation previously released a feature length- AI film, “Where the Robots Grow,” in 2024.
The growing prevalence of AI-generated entertainment has sparked backlash in Hollywood. In September, Whoopi Goldberg criticized the creation of AI actress Tilly Norwood.
“The problem with this, in my humble opinion, is that you are suddenly up against something that’s been generated with 5,000 other actors. It’s got Bette Davis’ attitude, it’s got Humphrey Bogart’s lips … and so it’s a little bit of an unfair advantage,” Goldberg said on “The View.”
“Scream” actress Melissa Barrera spoke out against Norwood via Instagram, writing, “How gross, read the room.”
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Norwood’s creator, Particle6 CEO and founder Eline Van Der Velden, defended the AI actress during a Tuesday, Dec. 9, interview with ABC News Live.
“[Replacing human actors] is not what she’s here for and that’s absolutely not my plan,” Van Der Velden said. “In the traditional film and TV industry, there’s a lot of productions that are missing, say 20 or 30 percent of the budget. And so they never actually go into full production. So by using AI and facilitating that budget to be lower, we’re actually getting productions going and getting more people into work. So that’s really positive.”
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