I Went to an AI Film Festival Screening and Left With More Questions Than Answers
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Summary
In a recent post, WIRED expands on the implications of AI’s increasing role in the creation of visual media, reflecting on the increasing suspicion that AI is reaching the point at which it can produce aesthetic content that is indistinguishable from that produced by human beings.
To test this theory, the writer attended a screening of a selection of shorts from the AI Film Festival, and found that while some of the films were visually impressive, there was an overall sense of “trickery” induced by the knowledge that these were machine-generated films.
The article explores the counter-argument that AI is merely the latest in a long line of technological disruptions which will eventually become assimilated into the filmmaking process, and poses the question of whether it represents a fundamental break from the idea of art as something which involves skill, talent, and a human being at its origin.
