How can something be live action and AI generated?
*Exactly* my question.
It’s either live action *or* AI slop. It can’t be both.
Good question. My guess is that the author’s intended distinction (which is certainly not made clear) is between animated, cartoon-like characters and live actors. Disney gives us the easy example. In the Days of Walt, a long time ago, the company was built on animated cartoons. Everyone understood that what was onscreen was a product of the animators’ art. Now AI is faking the live actors as well. The thing looks like live action, but it is all an animation.
It will be interesting to see how it is labeled and marketed. There should probably be prominent warning labels to the effect of: “AI animated movie. There are no live actors involved.” It’s all nothing more than the director’s own self-projection, animated by a computer program.