“Chat GPT has done homework, so something like it will do the same for movies!” Unfortunately, this is a true statement.
Maybe you wouldn’t want to take advantage of A.I, but what about big movie studios? They love the “newest tech.” And they totally have the right to feel that way, because, well, they’re big movie studios. They’re taking advantage of not only new talent (Well, perhaps A.I has taken over their minds as well. Wait a bit on that, we’ll get to that later), but new new technologies to make the movie-making process a cheap and quick snap–fits A.I doesn’t it? Of course it does.
And they have shown interest in taking advantage of these technologies. If you’ve been taking a gander at big U.S news lately, you must have seen that actors’ unions were campaigning for compensation over the use of A.I likenesses of actors without their permission. So, obviously these big companies have taken advantage of A.I–and are abusing it. But AI in the big movie scene is mainly used to create younger versions of characters, or perhaps to smooth out details. However, as A.I advances, big movie studios have more reason to switch from fully physical to digital crews. But at the same time, it comes with a huge loss. All of the soul of a movie is lost that way. A movie may look the exact same as a human production, but the whole point of movies (I’m sorry) is lost. We watch movies because they ARE human–they’re made by humans, and, therefore, we can more closely relate to the characters, or what’s just going on on screen. Heck, the movie doesn’t have to make sense at all! As long as our limits as human viewers are tested. As long as it was us behind it, physical bodies and all. It makes the movie more impressive if it’s made by humans, who have deadlines, writer’s block, or a lack of perseverance to deal with. The movie is a sociological institution, and we as humans should be proud of that.
But this isn’t just an article about the full implementation of A.I in movies and why it’s so bad for us: It’s an article about us being at the whim of big companies, whether A.I is widely implemented in movies or not. And we are at their whim. For now, we have singular scenes to decide whether we find the full implementation of A.I important. And judging by the general attitude, I think it’s obvious what our path will be. But we can’t control mass media if we’re not leading the companies that do. And that’s hard to get up to that level. Mass media has mass, and it really is up to Big Media to decide whether we’re looking at an imitation of quality, of you y’know, “quality.”
