nofilmschool.com: Our most recent soiree into the debate comes in an ironic twist with the upcoming horror film Late Night With the Devil and recent backlash from a Twitter warrior noticing an AI generated still in the trailer. If AI is a "devil" of sorts to humanist art, should we perpetuate it in any way at all?
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I had heard a bit and seen images of this AI scandal through tik tok so I was very interested to see this article so I could read more about it. I am so absolutely over all of this AI stuff, but I know that is a very dumb place to be in since it is not going away anytime soon. I just wish that artistic corporations would have the integrity to hire talented people to create the art that they want rather than resorting to the easy way out and using AI because they are too greedy to do the right thing. Especially since 1) the AI art isn’t even that good since it doesn't understand anatomy or just how things generally look so it messing things up like the pumpkins and 2) the AI programs literally just steal the works and aesthetics of real people art that is out of the internet and turns out whatever this mess it. So not only does it look stupid, you didn’t actually make it yourself with a real artist, but you're stealing actual artists' work. It's a shame since the movie seems cool that it’ll always be stained in my eyes with this.
I don't think that the AI in this takes way from the art-but its important to note that it doesn't add anything either. When we choose to use AI in our works, we must pick things for AI to do that we either do not want to have an emotional impact upon an audience, or something that doesn't matter if it hits us or not. This is why AI stories feel forced and weird-it doesn't understand *why* something works, it only knows that it does. Without this crucial understanding, which could just be more training time away, I feel as if AI doesn't have the proper tools it needs to be able to make art that impacts us in the same way as human art. I've never seen an AI work that makes me want to cry. AI will always start as a way to simply cut corners, and then regrettably end as a way to save money.
This is a pretty interesting article, and like most problems with AI there really isn’t an obvious path to move forward on. Of course, it sucks that because productions can now use AI, they don’t have to pay as much for artists. But on the other hand, you would think this would be beneficial to smaller films – allowing them to potentially increase the scope of their project without increasing the budget or spending money. In my opinion, I think people are blowing the use of AI in Late Night With the Devil a little out of proportion. 3 stills on an indie movie, though it ultimately does take away from someone’s pay, is not a huge deal. That being said, people are still right to claim that this is how the transition starts. The parallels that can be made from this article between AI and automation in manufacturing are interesting. This is a somewhat similar problem that those who work in manufacturing have been dealing with since automation has become present.
I think that a really important part of this puzzle is the fact that Late Night With the Devil is an indie movie, being produced by an indie company that probably didn’t have the budget and/or people to spend on creating those images. What I imagine happened is that the already extremely busy couple of people responsible for all of the art stuff wanted to try something new. I am not sure how much time was saved in the end, since the images were edited anyway, but since this all happened two years ago when the conversation about the use of AI in the entertainment industry was completely different, I don’t think it’s entirely fair to punish a group of indie filmmakers who have been making a pretty cool looking product. Perhaps it would have been cool for them to have gone back and replaced those stills, but I honestly don’t think this is a a massive crisis scandal situation.
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