Paul Schrader has spent his lifetime writing a lot of movies about men bent over a table, journaling their darkest inner thoughts. Somehow, his current views on AI seem like they're closer to a scene from his movie than from actual reality. Let's unpack them together. Paul Schrader on AI In a recent interview, he told Vanity Fair that his opinion is that movies are “going to be more and more AI,” continuing: “I think we’re only two years away from the first AI feature.”He finished with, “I was just on the phone with someone today about a script I had, and I said, ‘You know, this would be a perfect script to do all AI.’”Sounds like the First Reformed director is preparing for a plague. When he was asked if he himself would be using AI to work on his next movies with him, Schrader said that “it’s just a tool.”He went on to say, “When you’re an author, you have to describe someone’s reaction. You use a code — you use a code of words, a certain number of letters, and so forth, and you express their facial reaction,” he continued. “An actor has their own code. Well, now you’re a pixelator, and you can create the face, and you can create the emotion on the face, and you can sculpt it the same way an author sculpts the reaction in a novel or a story.”Schrader went on to say that “AI is taking over film coverage” and...
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