The AI Filmmaker
Not too long ago, a clip went viral on social media – Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in a fight on top of a building in a city of ruin. Cruise and Pitt have never been in a movie together, though. And sure as shit they weren’t in a real fight. The scene was courtesy of a new AI, Seedance. The output is pretty scary in terms of realism. It’s still not quite perfect, but I’d argue that in the age of CGI generation, we get a lot of action scenes where characters – even normal everyday people – are defying physics in ways that are unrealistic. (As an aside,…
Contemporaneous: Chapters’ 8 – 12.
8. I wake too early like I ‘ve done every day since I was on antidepressants for five years over twenty years ago, and they fucked with my sleep, and even now, even with them clean from my system, the side-effects they introduce remain. Grabbing my phone from the bedside drawer where my clock radio sits, I check it, tensing as I expect some Lana diatribe. Sometimes she does that, sending me an essay detailing why I’ve behaved so poorly, a guided tour into my inadequacies that immerses me in guilt that overwhelms any equilibrium I have, until all that remains is the doubt that maybe, just maybe, I…