Interesting, and pretty cool on some levels I guess. It's well done, and a nice little short story.I do have questions.What are, or should, Mark Hamill and Liam Neeson be owed in terms of compensation for this kind of thing? This specific work may not be directly commercial but it's on YT, which does at least potentially pay something. How much effort & resources did this take to create, and how many people involved? How much of this will we start to see? Depending on answers to the above question on effort, I wonder if we start to get a flood of this kind of thing? TBH, I already feel a bit overwhelmed with content that is just impossible to follow. I have a constant trickle of friends sending me little videos and stuff that I just don't have the time to keep up with, in addition to more "real" content like actual movies & TV shows, games etc.We already have AI creators pushing nonexistent AI entities as if they are real people. I think there is at least one effort recently reported to create an AI actor / "star". Is an AI character different than an animated character, if it's not based on an existing human? Do we leave room for new human stars, or does AI become so easy to do we don't need them?Get off my lawn...
So it was 1 guy, in just a month. That's what I was getting at in one of my questions - a learning curve is there, but he got it done in a month. The tools are only getting better, obviously. And it sounds like it was an early effort. Hi might not have monetized this one - yet - but I bet the gears are turning for the next one. If not him, others will (and probably already are).My biggest fear is that we are going to completely kill off the next generation of actors, musicians and other creative types who do real world performance. There won't BE a new Mark Hamill / Luke Skywalker, because people will keep using the old one who never ages. Next up, an AI remake of Solo, with a young version of Harrison Ford b/c Alden Ehrenreich wasn't up to snuff and nobody else ever will be?
It's hard to predict exactly where it's all heading, but it will change filmmaking forever.
Here is where it is headed
In much that same way, young filmmakers can now use AI to create their own sizzle reels bringing their concepts to life. They'd also be able to use it to whip up their own concept art that could be used for real artists to flesh out. Or it could be used for casting to narrow down a list of 1000s of actors, inserting them directly into a costume and set to see how they would look onscreen. Along those same lines, it could bring down production costs for small films by letting them use actors, but create photorealistic sets and even costumes and makeup, further opening up opportunities to launch new visionaries.I could also see it used as a springboard for new ideas, not to fully form a movie, but to offer suggestions that could be crafted into something original. It's hard to predict exactly where it's all heading, but it will change filmmaking forever.
Thanks for the thoughts, Scott. The "sizzle reel" angle sounds like a good thing, if it leads to a movie with real actors as opposed to just creating AI characters and being done without human actors. I just don't see how, given the cost element, that doesn't become a big thing even if there's some initial lack of acceptance from older generations. I think the newer generations who are getting into it and will be born in a world with it, will not have nearly as much of a problem with it.There's certainly an element of AI being a new tool that gives more possibilities and opens things up to people who may have good and creative ideas that wouldn't be able to easily get them out and seen before AI. That part should be a positive for fans and consumers in general. We'll probably also get an AI tool that can help us "scrape" the content as viewers and filter out the ginormous amounts of crap that will get generated.
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