The robovideos is a neat concept--anyone can cook one up with out much skill--but it's annoying how it's becoming popular. That website, for example, could be done with 2 actors and commodity video hardware. Videocameras are practically free nowadays. But instead of actually producing a video, they do the text-to-video thing. BECAUSE the text-to-video technology is available, it will be used, and that's what annoys me; people don't have value judgement. It's kind of how I like synthesizer technology in principle, but it annoys me when people use synthesizer technology when they would otherwise have made 'real' music, it's just the synthesizer software is 'easier'--a judgement which springs from the false notion that it is somehow equivalent to the real thing. That's the depressing flip side of new technology...society lacks the value to keep it confined where it really belongs.
