{"id":67767,"date":"2025-10-09T12:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/67767\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T12:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:26:11","slug":"mad-max-director-george-miller-has-intense-curiosity-about-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/67767\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Mad Max’ Director George Miller Has “Intense Curiosity” About AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGeorge Miller<\/a>, the feted Australian director behind the Mad Max<\/a> franchise, has said that he welcomes the disruption AI will bring to the movie business.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an interview with The Guardian<\/a>, Miller said he has an \u201cintense curiosity\u201d about the technology and how it will influence storytelling in the future.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe filmmaker was speaking after agreeing to lead the judging at Australia\u2019s Omni AI film festival, which takes place in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n

\n\tHis interest comes amid a lively industry conversation about Tilly Norwood<\/a>, dubbed the world\u2019s first AI actress, and The Sweet Idleness<\/a>, which is claimed to be the first film directed by AI.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAI is arguably the most dynamically evolving tool in making moving image,\u201d Miller said. \u201cAs a filmmaker, I\u2019ve always been driven by the tools. AI is here to stay and change things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Happy Feet director likened the rise of generative AI to the introduction of oil paint, which \u201cgave artists the freedom to revise and enhance their work over time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA similar debate unfolded in the mid-19th century with the arrival of photography. Art has to evolve. And while photography became its own form, painting continued. Both changed, but both endured. Art changed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added: \u201cIt\u2019s the balance between human creativity and machine capability, that\u2019s what the debate and the anxiety is about.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMiller \u2014 who said he was looking for \u201cemotional resonance,\u201d not technical novelty, from Omni AI film festival entries \u2014 added that the technology is helping democratize filmmaking. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt will make screen storytelling available to anyone who has a calling to it,\u201d he explained. \u201cI know kids not yet in their teens using AI. They don\u2019t have to raise money. They\u2019re making films \u2013 or at least putting footage together. It\u2019s way more egalitarian.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Miller, the feted Australian director behind the Mad Max franchise, has said that he welcomes the disruption…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,54393,54394,111,139,69,145,46337],"class_list":["post-67767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-george-miller","tag-mad-max","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology","tag-tilly-norwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}