He is unfortunately correct, if the AI generated actors are convincing enough then majority of people will not care. Just like it is with CGI, people complain about CGI in movies but as examples they can only list movies with very poor CGI because our brain ignores good CGI.
Good thing they won’t be convincing enough. The preview for every AI actor I’ve seen has been laughably bad. Mostly because AI has trained itself off of decades of mediocre people using social media to “act” for ad placements while forcing a fake charismatic demeanor on everything else for community building. AI actors have the depth of a porn star convincing you their work is enjoyed more than their paycheck. Except AI performs that way for every basic human emotion.
AI isn’t even intelligent my dude. All forms of it just predict what best fills in a blank, and the sum total of every bad actor on social media is the largest pool it has to pull from. Expecting good or meaningful performances from AI actors is hilariously misguided. At best we’ll get perfect looking humans with flawless facial symmetry that have the emotional depth and inflection of text emojis.
That can’t carry a 2 hour film, let alone any content that requires emotional complexity. At best we’ll get movies that are just 2 hour reaction videos in what AI thinks humans do in certain situations. Baby born = happy face. Baby died = sad face. Is about the depth you can expect from these actors.
What the hell? Not so long ago, he was strongly opposed to digital SFX because he wanted movies to capture reality. Did we swap Kassovitz for an evil clone?
Any idea how much compute power its gonna take to make a feature film worth watching? lol
I’m still grumpy about Special Effects. Give me a real stunt driver and practical effects please! …And real actors.
I guess I’m nobody
surprising the director of la haine is clearly not a pessimist
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Nice to meet you brother.
Remember when every movie just HAD to be 3D?
I remember it like the Metaverse. Or NFTs.
it’s been the same since cinema existed. Hollywood finds a trend that is popular and then runs it into the ground. 3D films. Star Wars clones. Slashers and Action movies in the 80s. Die Hard Clones, Disaster Movies, and Teen movies of the 90s. Hell back when Charlie Chaplin was making movies studios were pumping out knock offs like you wouldn’t believe. the “Beach Movies” of the 60s. The Western. so on and so forth. And of course recently adaptations of 80s toys and comics.
So yeah there will be a few AI only movies for awhile until the audience eventually gets sick of them and then Hollywood pivots to a new trend.
I fully agree here.
Yet still wondering why the “outcast goes on crazy adventure and discovers inner strength” animated dreck hasn’t run its course.
In this interview, Kassowitz misses the point entirely. He talks at length about how “AI steals, but it’s fine, we all steal, great art is made by stealing…” my bro we are aware. That is not the issue at all. (I mean, that’s one issue)
We (humanity) want to make art, we want to act, to paint, to sing, for fuck’s sake. Delegating creation of all things is missing the point because that’s not something you want to automate, unless you have some vested interest in getting rid of the “middleman” (=the artist).
Furthermore, it’s giving up the political power of art to corporations : manufacturing consent will never be as easy as with generative AI.Once again, Blade Runner wasn’t supposed to be an inspiration. Fuck off to mars, Kassowitz
Nobodies going to know who this guy is in 2 years. I already don’t.
Agreed, but uh… Nobody’s* (as in, nobody is. Not plural of nobody)
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I’m still convinced these statements will age like milk.
In a few years people won’t care if their milk is AI, I heard it from an expert whose salary depends on him taking this position
Probably not care. I’ve already given up on watching movies since American dross is usually what is on offer. TV is from Europe and so far isn’t AI. I’ve been to more live theatre and cultural events in the last year than I was in the previous 10. Unless they start having very realistic robots do the performances and I can’t tell from real actors, that is probably where most of my support of artists will go instead of corporate crap.
It amazes me when people advocate for their replacement. Every single person in all industries should be saying “fuck ai”
It’s almost like people see “don’t comply in advance” and think that it means “except for me!” or it will somehow benefit them if they do it anyway.
The latter, presumably, being the reason people love licking boots, boosting wealth hoarders, voting against their interests, etc. They’ll get some crumbs from the table if they do it hard enough, surely.
If this were true, we’d see a lot more animation, the reality is actors are important to the creative process otherwise and the director having to micromanage ai (or let it just produce averages) is only good for producing slop (which admittedly is a lot of what Netflix puts out).
Some of the best parts of a movie is where the actor is improvising. AI made movies would most likely just stick to the script and feel flat and boring.
I would say theater is an even bigger indicator. People want to see people do amazing things.
Remember how all these shitty directors were predicting that people wouldn’t care about practical effects anymore after that advent of environmental CG in the 90’s?
People notice. Yes we care.
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