It’s Gonna Be a BESTSELLER!
People not in the know think producing a bestseller is as simple as coming up with a cool idea. That’s it. And plenty of people will think they have it. They’re the one person in the world – the only person in a population in excess of 8 billion – who’s stumbled upon THAT ONE IDEA that is going to trump everything else. In the time I’ve worked in the hybrid publishing space, it’s the number one thing I hear. An author will come in and say, “I’ve written a book – it’s going to be a bestseller.” Or, “I’m going to write a book – it’s going to be…
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,…