Filmmaking is an art form. In the realm of creativity, people often crave the authenticity that only real humans can provide. This is why blockbusters often enlist well-known actors to generate interest and why, despite our daily reliance on them, our personal computers don’t make headlines in gossip columns. In just one year, MidJourney has gone from making quite interesting, abstract art in the earlier versions, to making very stylish eye candy. The quirky original early AI style has been lost. That says a lot about the future of AI, in that it may be too good. Too perfect. The great thing about human art is the unpredictable weirdness and imperfect nature of it. What the modern film industry lacks too, is that same spontaneity, unprofessionalism and risk-taking, creative accidents. This is what sets apart some of the earlier more buccaneering cinema to now. The movie world has become too professional, too safe. AI is destined to end up the same way with strict safety standards built into the models. It might be difficult to make AI generate original ideas and controversial content. It might be difficult to avoid cliches, as by definition it only produces derivative works. This means that AI is a creative tool to assist the human in their film writing, cinematography or virtual set design. It cannot fully take over, it has to be edited, prompted and bent to your intent as a director of the AI tool. AI art generated purely by AI that...
Published By: EOSHD.com blog - Friday, 21 July, 2023