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,…
AI in the Creative Industries
AI is an eating machine. Techs program it. Feed it our experiences. Teach it how to output. It’s an amalgamation of everybody who interacts with it – a cannibal who takes our industry, and then through algorithms and probability, generates its own material. But that material is built on our creativity, our originality, and our endeavour. What a fucking crock. But here’s something else to consider … Isn’t that just us also? Parents produce us. Environment programs us – parents, sibling, teachers, friends, strangers. We’re a product of all these constructs, which then forms the way we think, and shapes how we navigate life. Occasionally, our behaviour might schism, although usually…