AI film premiers at Cannes

[NorthCyd]

A fully digital 90 minute movie named Hell Grind was shown at Cannes. It took 14 days to generate at a cost of 500k and it's fully digital. From the trailer the movie itself looks terrible, but as a tech demo and proof of concept pretty impressive. The AI characters definitely get into the uncanny valley at times but at other times you could sell me that they are real flesh and blood actors. Pretty crazy what they are going to be able to do with this in a couple of years.

 

[BryceC]

I mean it sincerely I think anything creative is in trouble. It’ll be a hobby for a lot of people but if you think of my youngest who is 9, he loves dreaming up worlds and stuff. He could dream something up, put himself in it, and create a whole movie in the not too distant future.

 

[mj4cy]

I mean it sincerely I think anything creative is in trouble. It’ll be a hobby for a lot of people but if you think of my youngest who is 9, he loves dreaming up worlds and stuff. He could dream something up, put himself in it, and create a whole movie in the not too distant future.

Yep eventually its going to be so much cheaper to go the AI route than traditional methods...I suppose in the end, wherever the eyeballs and dollars go, the industry goes.

AI has been a great tool for me in a few ways but I can also see the temptation to turn my brain off and just let it figure a challenge out. It definitely can stifle creativitiy as much as it can enhance it.

 

[BCClone]

Yep eventually its going to be so much cheaper to go the AI route than traditional methods...I suppose in the end, wherever the eyeballs and dollars go, the industry goes.

AI has been a great tool for me in a few ways but I can also see the temptation to turn my brain off and just let it figure a challenge out. It definitely can stifle creativitiy as much as it can enhance it.

No more going to LA to be an actor/actress. Jobs will be extinct.

 

[houjix]

No more going to LA to be an actor/actress. Jobs will be extinct.

Guess it's time to start supporting more live performances.

 

[BryceC]

No more going to LA to be an actor/actress. Jobs will be extinct.

And honestly that’s too bad.

 

[PrimeCy]

Every video you watch on youtube or wherever is suspect now.

 

[BCClone]

Every video you watch on youtube or wherever is suspect now.

Those Russian brides are gonna be in trouble

 

[ZorkClone]

Looks like it generated the blandest action movie imageable. The comedy/one-liners on display are the worst type of marvel slop.

I imagine that in 10 years it will be incredible and at a cost of only $500k, we will see thousands (maybe event 10's of thousands) of these movies release every year. Netflix spends $18 billion a year on content a year they could make 36,000 movies a year.

If were the SAG-AFTRA I would probably be trying to rally everyone in the industry to pressure congress to ban/restrict AI generated mass media as this could destroy all of it.

 

[SolterraCyclone]

I agree. it’s amazing that something like this is completely AI generated. But quite frankly this looks like ****.

AI is ok at generating effects, but I have yet to see an AI model generate compelling dialogue. It’s very clearly lacking a human touch.

AI has a long way to go before it can create an actual, quality movie that would have mass appeal. There’s way more to a movie than characters that look real and big explosions.

I’m still not convinced AI can be any more than a tool to help humans. We still haven’t achieved humanless cars that won’t drive into floods. And that seems way easier than a model creating something from scratch.

 

[NorthCyd]

I agree. it’s amazing that something like this is completely AI generated. But quite frankly this looks like ****.

AI is ok at generating effects, but I have yet to see an AI model generate compelling dialogue. It’s very clearly lacking a human touch.

AI has a long way to go before it can create an actual, quality movie that would have mass appeal. There’s way more to a movie than characters that look real and big explosions.

I’m still not convinced AI can be any more than a tool to help humans. We still haven’t achieved humanless cars that won’t drive into floods. And that seems way easier than a model creating something from scratch.

People actually wrote the script and dialogue, so a lot of the stuff people are complaining about is what the humans came up with. I agree, as an actual story it looks like trash, but they just used AI to generate the actors and scenes, the story and dialogue is all human.

The process sounds interesting. They basically used prompts to generate the movie 15 seconds at a time. Apparently the prompts were thousands of words long because they went into very specific detail about dialogue, character reactions, camera angle, lighting, etc. Basically still needed all the knowledge of a writer, director, cinematographer, etc. I get the feeling the talent in those areas was lacking, so it will be interesting to see the results when the technology advances a little more and some legitimate film makers give this a go.

 

[BryceC]

Looks like it generated the blandest action movie imageable. The comedy/one-liners on display are the worst type of marvel slop.

I imagine that in 10 years it will be incredible and at a cost of only $500k, we will see thousands (maybe event 10's of thousands) of these movies release every year. Netflix spends $18 billion a year on content a year they could make 36,000 movies a year.

If were the SAG-AFTRA I would probably be trying to rally everyone in the industry to pressure congress to ban/restrict AI generated mass media as this could destroy all of it.

How do you stop it? If it’s 500k today it’ll be 5k in 10 years, then random people can crank it out and just post it on YouTube.

As for it being bland, well yeah no kidding.

This won’t be replacing One Battle After Another, but I’m not too long it could dump out whole seasons of CSI: Des Moines and be pretty okay I bet.

 

[SolterraCyclone]

People actually wrote the script and dialogue, so a lot of the stuff people are complaining about is what the humans came up with. I agree, as an actual story it looks like trash, but they just used AI to generate the actors and scenes, the story and dialogue is all human.

The process sounds interesting. They basically used prompts to generate the movie 15 seconds at a time. Apparently the prompts were thousands of words long because they went into very specific detail about dialogue, character reactions, camera angle, lighting, etc. Basically still needed all the knowledge of a writer, director, cinematographer, etc. I get the feeling the talent in those areas was lacking, so it will be interesting to see the results when the technology advances a little more and some legitimate film makers give this a go.

Ahh thanks for the clarification on the dialogue. I still don’t think the effects were that great either compared to a fully human movie, but they are impressive for AI.

And that speaks to my point, even this still required heavy human involvement with prompts. AI isn’t replacing humans, it’s replacing functions. At the end of the day actors are just a function of a movie. And quite frankly the acting from the characters doesn’t seem that good either. Real actors would do better than these

 

[SolterraCyclone]

How do you stop it? If it’s 500k today it’ll be 5k in 10 years, then random people can crank it out and just post it on YouTube.

As for it being bland, well yeah no kidding.

This won’t be replacing One Battle After Another, but I’m not too long it could dump out whole seasons of CSI: Des Moines and be pretty okay I bet.

Yes I agree with this. Whenever anyone cries about the threat to creatives AI possesses, I always think shows like Law and Order and Chicago Fire are the biggest “threat” to creativity. They just spit out the same formulaic **** each week

 

[NorthCyd]

Ahh thanks for the clarification on the dialogue. I still don’t think the effects were that great either compared to a fully human movie, but they are impressive for AI.

And that speaks to my point, even this still required heavy human involvement with prompts. AI isn’t replacing humans, it’s replacing functions. At the end of the day actors are just a function of a movie. And quite frankly the acting from the characters doesn’t seem that good either. Real actors would do better than these

I think it will meet halfway. In the not too distant future AI will be integrated into pretty much all the software we use, so you will still have digital artists but there jobs will be much quicker and less labor intensive as AI can do a lot of the heavy lifting for them. They won't need mocap and green screen anymore. Reshoots will be much easier, etc. This is taking the generative AI concept to the extreme which I think we are still a ways from doing for everything. But I think there is no doubt that AI is going to lead to a huge reduction in production costs.

 

[NickTheGreat]

Soon we'll have AI films, reviewed by AI youtubers, watched by AI bots.

I'm glad that my tax dollars are paying for the data center's utilities, since I benefit so much from it.

 

[SolterraCyclone]

I think it will meet halfway. In the not too distant future AI will be integrated into pretty much all the software we use, so you will still have digital artists but there jobs will be much quicker and less labor intensive as AI can do a lot of the heavy lifting for them. They won't need mocap and green screen anymore. Reshoots will be much easier, etc. This is taking the generative AI concept to the extreme which I think we are still a ways from doing for everything. But I think there is no doubt that AI is going to lead to a huge reduction in production costs.

I also agree with this. However, I think AI costs are for sure going to rise from where they are now due to resource constraints and demand.

Theres also been studies that AI has actually made productivity worse for firms. However some of that is due to it still being in the eatly adoption phase.

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[FLYINGCYCLONE]

So, kinda like cartoons.

 

[Chitowncy]

And honestly that’s too bad.

No **** shurlock. AI needs more regulatory guidance and laws put in place now - start with requiring labeling of all AI created videos. It's going to lead to a dystopian and confusing future where it's constantly a battle to determine truth from fiction. That's not good for a society, and particularly a democracy.

 

[3TrueFans]

I'm just psyched for the future when some dumbass can use a measly 90 bajillion gallons of water and 7 trillion gigawatts of electricity to produce the finest AI slop movies anyone has ever seen.