"This show was made by humans."These words appear in the credits to Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus.Gilligan is clearly taking a stance at a time when the film industry's relationship with artificial intelligence has become impossible to ignore. Major institutions like NYU Tisch are now teaching AI filmmaking courses in Martin Scorsese's namesake production center, while IMAX partners with AI film festivals and tech companies roll out new generative video tools seemingly every week. The debates rage across industry coverage, with some seeing democratization and others seeing displacement. Gilligan hates AI. He's not shy about it, either. - YouTube www.youtube.com In a conversation with Variety, Gilligan said, "AI is the world's most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine. I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit. It's basically a bunch of centibillionaires whose greatest life goal is to become the world's first trillionaires. I think they're selling a bag of vapor."He went further, describing AI-generated content as something akin to "a cow chewing its cud—an endlessly regurgitated loop of nonsense."Gilligan admitted that the looming threat of what's called the singularity (when AI potentially achieves genuine consciousness) bothers him. "If they ever achieve that, then the whole discussion of slavery has to come back into the forefront of the conversation," he said. "These trillionaires are going to want to make money on this thing that is now conscious. Is it then a slave?"The show's star, Rhea Seehorn, was also in that interview. She...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 12 November