A.I and concept development

[Baudelaire]

I thought Mr Deakins response to Dan Lemmon discussing his fears of A.I in recent episode very interesting. Very open minded (reminded me a lot of a wonderful  interview with the late painter frank Auerbach radio 4 did some years ago).

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[Roger Deakins]

I really don’t know what to think of the use of AI in filmmaking but change is a given.

[Baudelaire]

Im using most of the creative A.I programs daily. Still image, video, music generation for indie film making specifically I feel it has made a lot of things  previously impossible possible. I think A.I impact is very nuanced and rarely discussed coherently. I trained as a Fine art painter very intensively in UK.  For me the biggest misconception that people have about these tools is that it doesn’t negate the fact you still have to learn about art and design. That hasn’t changed. No matter  how incredible an image the A.I app generates you still need to understand on some level what it is you are actually looking at.

[Roger Deakins]

And you still need something to say – a story to tell.

[ravikantrai]

It’s hard to say anything but AI for now feels like we find ourselves in the year 1998 or something like that. Half the stuff being talked about is blown out of proportion and the other half has some kernel of truth to it. And then the 90s are over, the dot com bubble bursts. That part’s yet to happen with AI, but as of now, most of what we’ve been seeing even in the last two full years, is what they call “AI slop”. Just horrendous examples of even the best AI video generation examples.

For example, there was a footage that you can find online on youtube, where someone tried to create a full “scene” of someone running away after a heist, in a car. From start to end, other than the visuals being just plain bad and all over the place, it failed to get anything right in terms of continuity of location and even the “actor’s” face. I know, they say “don’t worry, this is the worst it will ever be”. But…even if it got ALL of it right in the future. It still lacks something very unique to you and I. Sentience/consciousness. And as long as that’s missing, it’ll always fall short somewhere.

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