Comment on Netflix’s first show with generative AI is a sign of what’s to come in TV, film
Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
This AI approach will go the same way as computer generated special effects went. The visuals will be “glorious” and the reliance on a true story will suffer. Mass entertainment will continue to become shallower than a toddler wading pool.
This is why I’m back to only reading books for imaginative fantasy. My imagination is the only generative intelligence I need. I refuse to hand over my intellectual sovereignty to the beast.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 6 days ago
VFX can be amazing in bringing something to life that words alone can’t convey.
The main issue here is that you need a cohesive story that would work without VFX, with the latter being additive instead of a replacement for plot. Whether it’s CGI or anything else, the storyline still rules.
Let’s go back some 40 years, to the Cliffs of Insanity scene in The Princess Bride (by S. Morganstern) – the effects weren’t great, but no one fucking noticed because the story itself was compelling.
Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Exactly so. But the “creatives” in mass media are interested in money, not magic.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 6 days ago
Made today, Falk would have cut in with “Westley doesn’t fall at this time.”