With today’s CGI and AI you can make a movie with John Wayne, Charlie Chaplin and many other long dead actors in it.
You cannot even trust a photo on FB anymore. Too many AI fakes.
Agreed. And to some degree it's been out for a while. Remember Disney/Star Wars using CGI to resurrect actor Peter Cushing for 2016's Rouge One? Of course, back then 9 years ago only an outfit like theirs could pull that off. Now a lot more people can.
Yep AI fakes are becoming a problem. I saw a transition video of a late star that I’m a fan of and the settings gave away that it wasn’t real but otherwise the face and everything looked spot on. A whole series of pictures one had never seen before. It shows one could take anyone and put them in any setting or situation the creator wanted to. One can still tell to some extent if something is AI but you can easily see down the road it will get so good that it will become very hard to tell.
I have zero interest in watching animations of people who have been dead for many years. YMMV.
Many crafts go into making a movie and AI will almoat certainly take over some of them. But the core of the enterprise is a collaboration among the writor, director and actors — and then a “dialogue” with the viewers.
If AI cuts the writer, director and actors out of the loop, movies will be nothing more than animations of a computer generated story.
I am happy to query a machine for information, but I have no interest in a discussion with a machine.
The effect on movies will probably depend on the genre. Disney was built on animated cartoons, although some of the movies dealt with classic stories with long histories and deep cultural and emotional resonance. But some are pure escapist fantasy. AI will probably take those. Flying spandex movies will be next.
With no human being in the loop, what is the point of drama, tragedy or even comedy above the children’s story level?
Ultimately, AI will make it easy for all of us to create content, and we’ll end up talking to ourselves and reacting to animations of our own reflections. I don’t see a future in that.
“””You cannot even trust a photo on FB anymore. Too many AI fakes.””””
I saw a video recently of Amy Klobuchar talking about the Sydney Sweeney ad. It looked and sounded like she was saying everything but it was as fake as you can get. And HILARIOUS.