Movie director: ‘Because of AI, I no longer need actors anymore’
Film producer: ‘Because of AI, I no longer need writers and directors anymore’
AI Companies ‘Because of AI, I no longer need movie studios anymore’
Public: ‘Because of AI, I no longer need to bother with movies anymore’
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Yeah, just like all movies are 3d now.
Remember when every movie just HAD to be 3D?
I remember it like the Metaverse. Or NFTs.
The fact that they are quoting a director whos biggest claim to fame was 30 years ago is very telling of his present state of mind. His best ideas are stolen, he hates copyright because he lacks any talent. He cant direct, but wants to with limited effort.
Ive worked with directors like this before, they use the word “homage” for every shot they take, they let the AD do all the actual directing work, and they sit behind the monitor looking at their cellphone during a take, and bitch occaisionally that they are running out of daylight while contributing nothing to the production besides their name and some bullshit personal relation from their childhood to the story being told in the film during a promo interview, a script which they didnt even write, they were just available when the studio called them to pump out another turd of a film. And in order to get people in the seats they claim its a “ground breaking cinematic experience” or some shit. Taking alllllllll the credit while being the smuggest piece of shit loser you have ever met. They also almost always cheat on their wives with some head of departmemt or cast member or at least try to. And they fucking LOVE blow… and shitting on every technician they can, outsourcing blame for their own ineptitude whenever possible.
Theres a really good example of this type of person in the show “brand new cherry flavor”
We all have our names for them, but my favourites are: dip shit moron, piece of shit loser, parasite, and of course, cunt.
I guess I’m nobody
Odysseus, is that you?
I’m still convinced these statements will age like milk.
Any idea how much compute power its gonna take to make a feature film worth watching? lol
“Money has told me that nobody will disagree with what it wants.”
Directors must be salivating at the idea of actors who never say “I’m cold” or “that’s dangerous” or “you’re a hack.”
Or “Pay me!”
Most people won’t watch AI films without real actors and actresses
I’m not sure that’s true. In day to day life, I find the majority of people will accept whatever the media tells them to accept.
The normalization of AI in the past couple of years has been rapid. Even my 70 year old aunts are delighting at AI-photoshopping themselves into flowers and revealing outfits. Prospective employees hand in chatbot-created resumes and cover letters, masking the fact that their spelling and grammar is godawful.
The media will tell us to celebrate the end of overpaid actors and influencers, and many people will be pleased to see them knocked down a peg.
I pretty much turn off anything that has AI generated content in it and file it away as blacklisted.
this includes directors, studios, online creators, etc.
I don’t even know who this guy is, why is he’s opinion so important that it needs an article?
La Haine is a critically regarded masterpiece and usually lands in best movies of all time lists. Easily one of the best French movies ever.
It’s really worth a watch.
Has this guy made anything of note in the past three decades?
“Sure, you made one of the best films of all time but what have you done lately?!?”
But yes. Subsequent films of his were nominated for the Palme d’Or as well as a pair of Cesar awards. As an actor he’s also been nominated for a variety of roles.
Yeah but he implied something not completely negative about AI so I’m pretty sure he’s actually an evil moron who knows nothing, which I can say due to my vast credentials as a Lemmy user of many years
2 years is wishful thinking. There is enough space in entertainment for AI actors and human actors. That being said, I think AI actors will dominate here.
The average movie watcher is already a fan of a fake image of entertainers whether they are on screen or not. AI isn’t replacing your best friend, it’s replacing someone you have never met and will probably never see in person anyway. Actors will have to start building deeper connections with their fans if they plan to stick around.
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.
maybe - maybe if they could make it good enough. But right now they’re struggling to
- make two actors appear in the same scene, while keeping the same clothes and characteristics
- say the line that’s given to them without changing it
- add any emotion whatsoever
- speak or act in any negative way
- portray crimes
- keep the same voice
- not move their mouths in unison when someone else is speaking
- make any kind of unusual movement
- keep objects from disappearing
- not make objects they’re talking about appear in the scene
- change volume
- use the correct eyeline (look at the right person, not look down the barrel of the camera
- not phase through solid objects
and that’s before you even get into things like subtext, irony, sarcasm, equivocation, stylistic choices, accents…
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.
