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What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED
Imagine watching a movie where the main character turns, looks right at you and asks what to do next. He unpacks what this could mean for storytelling, imagining a world in which creators use generative AI to set the scene — and then let viewers take control of the rest. (Recorded at TEDAI Vienna on…
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@JCG2
November 27, 2025 at 11:35 am
Why is this a TED talk? Just play a video game, one made by real artists. The video is clearly just an ad to get funds for something they can’t really deliver, because they don’t understand it.
@WearyTimeTraveler
November 27, 2025 at 11:39 am
This is the opposite of creativity, STOP you ghouls! Stop trying to force this god awful crap down peoples throats
@carlaboutte8164
November 27, 2025 at 11:48 am
Sure hope it’s not built on my back again!
@markemerson98
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 am
Instead of targeted static ads. Targeted dynamic ads that users interact and communicate with.
@MianMuhammadHassan-uv8xp
November 27, 2025 at 12:37 pm
those already exist, mobile game ads
@techzeverywhere
November 27, 2025 at 11:55 am
Ted AI will be awesome.
@KaijuNo-X
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 pm
AI video generation is coming for retail, we will be able to watch movies that never end where we control the prompts and direction of the movies. Playing movies, making sequels to any movie on the spot, Its going to be a wild ride.
@toolthoughts
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 pm
just an infinite feedback loop to drive everyone even more insane
@Omni315
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 pm
The parlour walls are coming!
@calib.muaddib
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 pm
“They weren’t created by humans in the traditional sense”. 😂😂😂🤡
@ALLSorcerer
November 27, 2025 at 12:23 pm
Why dont they just put ai in soace it’s really cold there
@MianMuhammadHassan-uv8xp
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 pm
Give up, that ship has sailed already!
@tythedetailer3650
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 pm
Yes, I do this with my A.I now. I’ve been doing it for a year or two now
@EarthChampion_TophBeifong
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 pm
Here comes more AI bull…
@sonofliberty1
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 pm
Just what I want from a TED talk; some uncharismatic, creatively bankrupt ghoul, reading marketing spiel off an autocue. Actual entertainment is made by people who have spent years learning and honing their craft, who understand how their mediums work and can use that knowledge in creative and unique ways in order to make something new that can elicit an emotional response from their audience. I’d bet that most people do not understand what it is that makes the things they like enjoyable and they would not be able to create anything of any real quality, even with the most advanced AI. Like generative AI, they will just produce slop based on elements of things they have already seen (things that were created by human professionals). No new or ground-breaking entertainment would be made this way and slop would gradually become the new normal as actual art would increasingly get lost in the sea of AI-generated excrement. And that’s before we even get started on the environmental issues.
@moknbyrd
November 27, 2025 at 12:58 pm
You mean like in Fahrenheit 451?
@flamevix
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 pm
Oh yeah, let’s divide humanity even further by eliminating connections with real human beings.
It’s just an empty parasocial relationship with something that is programmed to respond to you a certain way. It doesn’t have emotions, it doesn’t care, and it never will.
But I don’t know. Maybe that’s appealing to some people.
@geekincode
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 pm
If AI ends up doing every job especially the creative ones… then what’s left for us?
Why learn music, art, drama, mechanics, philosophy, or anything if machines can mimic it all effortlessly?
Work isn’t just about paying bills.
It’s how we contribute, create, belong.
Take that away, and what happens to our purpose? Our identity? Our mental wellbeing?
When creativity is automated… where does that leave the creators?
@keithray7471
November 28, 2025 at 8:10 am
To worship our God and live the life in Eden?
@geekincode
November 28, 2025 at 8:22 am
@keithray7471hey but even in Eden, someone still needed to name the animals. That was a human job.
@Letschill369
November 29, 2025 at 10:45 am
Exactly
@ShioKoori
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 pm
“What if you could talk to your favorite Character in a movie?” …. great, now I can’t even watch a movie anymore without having to do small talk. Thanks I hate it.
@toolthoughts
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 pm
JUST STOP before you ruin everything
@ahzhd423
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 pm
I fucking LOVE my SLOP!!!
@Moistsquelch
November 27, 2025 at 3:24 pm
Yeah this shouldn’t be a Ted talk , Ai is killing the planet and taking away work from actual artists with real talent. The internet is already over 50% bots , soon the internet will be unusable. You promoting Ai is you being okay with destroying the planet and peoples lives
@tyroadept
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 pm
yup, this was my sign to finally unsubscribe
@friedricht4672
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 pm
thx I hate it
@johansugarev
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 pm
yeah nah
@sick-days
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 pm
Nobody is buying what this guy is selling
@KMHill
November 27, 2025 at 7:40 pm
Some drug must be in our water that so many people are buying into such horrible concepts.
@kanzibonobo8415
November 27, 2025 at 8:56 pm
I hate this idea.
@dear-future-ai
November 28, 2025 at 12:28 am
Join a roleplay community
@dohwahdoh
November 28, 2025 at 5:12 am
We’d rather talk to our neighbours. Thx bro
@shinewithshraddha
November 28, 2025 at 7:03 am
Christoph Lassner’s vision of AI-powered interactive storytelling is next-level. The idea that viewers can actively shape a story, rather than passively consume it, changes the entire landscape of entertainment. Generative AI not only expands creative possibilities for storytellers but also makes audience engagement deeply personal. This is a glimpse into a future where narrative, technology, and user agency merge in ways we haven’t seen before.
@villainoir
November 28, 2025 at 8:07 am
No one asks for this ridiculous thing, no need to bring others to your hallucination bro
@patrickwelsh5091
November 28, 2025 at 9:05 am
Congratulations, you’ve invented “video games”
@randomrise1st72
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 am
BOOOOOOO!
If I wanted something I wanted it to be made by actual creators and creative people
@Moss_knight00
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 am
just stop. AI can change the world, sure, but CURE CANCER
IT WAS SUPPOSED TO CURE CANCER
Not robbing us of arts and human connections
Be better TED
@jf-jx4ym
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 pm
Yes i had this idea too.. It would be weird.. One Could also make (And kinda already have) systems that you interact with/To and which reacts To your circumstances and input with varying output… Increasingly odd when systems develop and are developed deliberately so… Even emergent phenomemon like ads based on online behaviour.. Big data and marketing… output and media feeds create interesting stuff that is not deliberately designed To do so.
@dmitriis4075
November 28, 2025 at 2:43 pm
The dude just invented the concept of videogames 😄
@bradball42
November 28, 2025 at 4:32 pm
Your sick in the head
@vickykumar1922
November 29, 2025 at 1:38 am
Great 👍
@miguel.8212
November 29, 2025 at 7:47 am
The IA should be banned in the Arts sectors.
The Arts is for the humans.
@Letschill369
November 29, 2025 at 10:44 am
No the entire Point of art is not just the final product the story emotion and soul sklill that is what makes art art not slop made by ai ai has no soul so it can’t make art no matter how much art was stolen and plagiarized to train ai models ai will never compair to real artist work
@Jooonathan
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 pm
This could be the start of simulated reality, where you are in the movie and are able to interact with it. Now all we need is to decode the human brain and beam it with waves that counteract brain waves in such a pattern that you experience being in the A.I. generated reality