Scorsese is pro-AI for the same reason so many middle aged and older people in creative industries are, and the same reason all those college administrators we saw getting booed were: they are being lied to about something they don’t really understand by enthusiastic rich people.
Antony Starr speaks out against AI
"'[AI] is coming no matter what' ... bla bla. Recent movies have proven that people want human stories. Not big ridiculous VFX-driven nonsense"
"Ever tried to go to an Al movie premiere? The cast are horrible and they hate their human fans"
Gareth Edwards is excited about AI filmmaking
"It’s so clearly a tool that might be up there with the camera"
He says AI has 'no taste whatsoever' when it comes to generating human stories, but is a 'fucking genius' at helping filmmakers organize ideas, test concepts, and produce images
“I view it like having a second-unit director who is a billionaire on acid”
He eventually wants to make a hybrid generative AI film
(via @THR)
I like how when she was revealed to by the goddess Calypso, no one threw a hissy fit because "certain people" weren't conditioned by the culture war in 2007.
"We must, then, avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' namely the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance."