Well the computers have pretty much got us all watching movies and listening to music on little cellphones now. Its basically replaced maps and street signs. Its replaced TV networks and even cable with streaming platforms. Magazines and newspapers are practically gone. CD's are gone. Nobody needs to shop at stores anymore. The libraries and bookstores are empty and gathering dust. Our favorite restaurant cuisine can be ordered online. And its even replaced our social outings with hours of online posting to faceless friends we never meet. Why wouldn't it take over making movies? The possibilities for such are endless, once again eliminating the need for leaving our domiciles altogether. In time it will probably even be capable of imitating the styles of various great directors, say like Hitchcock or Tarantino or Lynch, who all will appropriately be rolling over in their graves!
(Jun 1, 2025 03:11 AM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]If AI can produce videos as good as these, why do we need actors and film studios?
During the last strike, the entertainment industry signed off on those job security safeguards that actors and writers demanded to prevent AI from antiquating them. To offset that, the freer public would have to get involved in extensive film and audio production via AI. I suppose that demands some kind of YouTube or TikTok exclusively devoted to showcasing AI generated video and music, in order for that to fully mature (if such doesn't already exist).
Here's a trailer for a film that one guy has been working on, all done by generative AI:
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1941070476152906183
On one hand, film studios have been spending hundreds of millions to get CGI effects like these. Now it's possible to do it very cheaply. That will threaten to put the film studios out of business, while it's opening up the film industry to all kinds of new entrants. Meawhile the movie theater business is dying, and the day is coming when content like this is streamed straight into people's home entertainment systems.
On the other hand, this trailer looks very derivative, a mashup of the style of Star Wars and Dune with hints of Lord of the Rings and perhaps even King Arthur. That's probably inevitable with generative AI which basically adapts existing material rather than creating a totally original vision.
And we've yet to see AI produce a complete screenplay, with consistent believable characters, a story arc and all the story telling stuff. This trailer does hint at that here though.
(Jul 5, 2025 04:10 AM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]Here's a trailer for a film that one guy has been working on, all done by generative AI:
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1941070476152906183
On one hand, film studios have been spending hundreds of millions to get CGI effects like these. Now it's possible to do it very cheaply. That will threaten to put the film studios out of business, while it's opening up the film industry to all kinds of new entrants. Meawhile the movie theater business is dying, and the day is coming when content like this is streamed straight into people's home entertainment systems.
On the other hand, this trailer looks very derivative, a mashup of the style of Star Wars and Dune with hints of Lord of the Rings and perhaps even King Arthur. That's probably inevitable with generative AI which basically adapts existing material rather than creating a totally original vision.
And we've yet to see AI produce a complete screenplay, with consistent believable characters, a story arc and all the story telling stuff. This trailer does hint at that here though.
Echoes of a past era of recycled entertainment, since before CGI there was lower budget filmmaking and television that had to rent existing studio sets, gadgets, props, and costumes used before in previous movies or TV shows. (They couldn't afford to create their own from scratch.) Not to mention all the stock footage inserted into those presentations.
Kids watching in the 1960s: "
Oh geez, there's that same robot in Forbidden Planet showing up in this episode of Twilight Zone. Oh look, there's the same "manta ray" saucers of The War of the Worlds (1953) flying around in Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964). Wow, is that the same Creature from the Black Lagoon running amok and attacking the crew inside the Seaview submarine?
And seeing characters and hearing narrators in these "homemade" AI productions that resemble and sound like familiar actors is nothing new, since the real performers likewise appear in a horde of different roles. Plus, there's the novelty of reviving the faces and voices of actors that have been dead for decades.
It's kind of like our dreams, too, that are purely fabricated on the fly from bits of things stored in our limited memories. But AI has the advantage of managing that imaginative process in a vastly more regulated way when elaborately coerced to do so (i.e., inter-consistent events and adhering to the laws of physics -- if Asimov or Heinlein were its fine-tuning taskmasters, anyway).