Gotcha, I think we have different standards for what we mean by “average.”
As an aside: I also think the term “plot hole” is overused to the point of almost becoming meaningless as a result of poor media literacy across culture. Like, plot holes are a thing that exists, but most things people call plot holes aren’t. And most people don’t really understand what they’re complaining about when they complain about plot holes. So I don’t have much confidence about your assessment about those being the main issue with AI narratives.
Yeah, different standards for coherence as well as different standards for “average” I think.
What you’re describing sounds really glaringly bad to me. But I don’t have any idea about the quality of like, the mathematical average of all TV shows or something. Such a thing might be quite bad/incoherent, or it might not, I have no clue. There are way more TV shows than I have time to watch or make judgements about, so I think determining what some true mathematical average is like is approximately impossible for me.
I was thinking of my own standards for average, which is something like: I find out about a show that in some way gets my curiosity/attention enough that I might want to watch it. Then I watch it and I do not think it is amazing, but I also don’t think it’s bad. I usually finish watching it and consider it okay and not a waste of time.
That’s what I mean by an “average” TV show. My suspicion is that is what most people will mean when they say “average TV show” whether they are consciously aware of their meaning or not.
By that standard, the types of shows you are describing sound way below average to me. But maybe I’m out of the loop on the quality of AI. You said you think this is achievable within a year… do you have any examples of AI generated narratives that you would consider close? Just a bit below average?