Movie-making is an artifice, so will creators embrace AI?
While many actors and filmmakers go out of their way to bash AI image-generating technology as hard as they can, there’s a secret undercurrent in which Hollywood is all-in on Artificial Intelligence, and the race is on to generate the first AI blockbuster.
Some sectors of the film industry are slow to accept change, with some still refusing to change 35mm film for digital.
The fact is: when creators shun utilizing new tech developments, they are just marrying themselves to an earlier-age’s technological solutions – after all, there’s nothing natural about film-making.
The New York Post reported:
“AI has officially been met with extreme skepticism by more entrenched filmmakers. However — as is always the way in two-faced, back-biting, cutthroat Hollywood — that also means behind the scenes, every studio, filmmaker, and screenwriter worth their salt are desperately trying to harness its power to push the boundaries and create something new to wow audiences with.
‘The space race was about being first, but it was also about inspiring the world that we should keep competing and keep investing [in the technology]. Bigger than being first, which is fleeting, is inspiring the world’, Bryn Mooser, who has two Academy Award nominations for documentary shorts, told The Post.”
Hellbound and Down 