Talented creators say the darndest things. The latest one to put his foot in his mouth is George Miller, director of the very good, fantastic, wonderful girl-power post-apocalyptic action film Mad Max: Fury Road, as well as many other great movies. In an interview the filmmaker gave shortly before he\u2019s expected to lead a panel of judges at an upcoming Australian AI film festival (they generated a festival?), homeboy opened his mouth to proudly declare that \u201cAI is here to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n
In his interview with The Guardian<\/a> (h\/t real person Megan Garside at GamesRadar<\/a>), the famed filmmaker said: \u201cAI is arguably the most dynamically evolving tool in making moving image. As a filmmaker, I\u2019ve always been driven by the tools<\/a>.\u201d If he has any concerns over labor, plagiarism, and Shinra-esque data centers sucking the planet dry, they seem to be, at best, secondary.<\/p>\n But okay, let\u2019s hold off on the pitchforks and torches for a second and hear the writer and producer of Babe out:<\/p>\n It\u2019s the balance between human creativity and machine capability, that\u2019s what the debate and the anxiety is about [\u2026] It strikes me how this debate echoes earlier moments in art history.<\/p>\n Miller went on to loosely deliver some pseudo-historical background, comparing AI\u2019s rise to that of oil painting in the Renaissance and photography in the mid-19th century. \u201cIt will make screen storytelling available to anyone who has a calling to it,\u201d Miller said, echoing the common pro-AI argument that it\u2019s some kind of democratizing force. \u201c[Kids not yet in their teens are] making films\u2013or at least putting footage together. It\u2019s way more egalitarian.\u201d<\/p>\n Read More: Open AI Is Already Backtracking After Flood Of Video Game Slop Including Sam Altman Eating Pikachu<\/a><\/p>\n There is a degree of truth to some of these statements, but it\u2019s about time we\u2019ve started to have a more honest conversation about the history of human technological development and the intentions of those who own these means of production. These same tools that, yes, may make it easier to mush together some ideas to produce a concept of a movie or piece of art, are not only doing so at extreme cost to the planet (and people\u2019s energy bills<\/a>). They\u2019re also making it harder for aspiring creatives to make a living doing this work, as those deploying AI are largely doing so to replace functioning, compensated labor in creative endeavors (and other forms of work). Throwing a sentence at a machine to have it spit out a neat-looking idea might lower the barrier to entry, but I\u2019m not sure how denying people the ability to make a living with their art by replacing their ability to make money by producing that art is more egalitarian.<\/p>\n And as to kids \u201cnot yet in their teens\u201d making films? Steven Spielberg made his first \u201cmovie\u201d when he was but a pre-teen himself<\/a>, a boy scout earning a badge for an 8mm film, and that was after a youth spent filming model trains to recreate a scene from The Greatest Show on Earth. And he certainly wasn\u2019t the only filmmaker doing such things<\/a> at a young age.<\/p>\n So remind me again what AI is going to offer aspiring filmmakers that history has shown will already act on their passions? And if AI eats away at job opportunities for young filmmakers in a world where everyone\u2019s just typing prompts into slop machines, how is this more egalitarian?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talented creators say the darndest things. The latest one to put his foot in his mouth is George…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-213667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}