OpenAI will be debuting a film at the Cannes Film Festival. With a budget of $30M or less, and a timeframe of 9 months, the slop they turn in will cost a fraction as much and take a fraction as long to develop as the slop Hollywood normally produces. FWIW though I did find the little video in the WSJ article entertaining, in a deeply unsettling, uncanny-valley kind of way.
Okay, but if he manages to win a Palme d’Or and an Oscar, I’ll blame the organizers of both awards.
they gave the movie Titane a golden palm… they don’t have taste amyway lol
AHahahahaha 30 MILLION?!? AHAHAHAHAHAHA
Holy shit they’re about to prove why it’s better and cheaper to pay humans to animate something than it is to pocket 30 mil while asking a computer to do it.
It is genuinely disgusting to read the budget of this AI movie is going to be 30 million.
With that much money and time, you can also just make a real animated movie with humans doing the drawing.
15 million alone is enough to employ a team of nearly 200 animators at a rate of 75k a year. Which leaves 15 million for marketing.
Let’s see what a team of 200 animators and the same budget can do in the same amount of time.
Fuck AI in its entirety if all it’s doing is taking jobs away from the skilled. All I see here is a grift to pay a team of C-suites the wages of hundreds of artists to find out they don’t know the difference between their ass and a hole in the ground, even after asking Chat GPT.
I can’t wait to see this movie fail. I’ll bet money it’s not even completed by the end of this year. Fucking WASTE of money.
Okay but why would Openai pay 30 million to a normal animation company? That money wouldnt be going to that?
The same reason opiod companies paid doctors to promote their opiods: legitamacy.
- Opiods were marketed as a wonder-drug painkiller.
- Then a bunch of doctors got kickbacks for writing prescriptions for opiods.
- This made them seem popular, at least enough that a large majority of the US then started getting prescribed and asking for opiods.
Instead it created the opioid crisis that still has addicts suffering to this day.
- AI is being marketed as a wonder tool for film.
- A bunch of animation studios are getting kickbacks to use AI.
- The goal is to make AI seem legitamate and popular. The animation studios work will be used to hide how terrible the AI is at doing their job. However, their work, and any of it’s results, will likely be credited to the AI, not them. Which is why they’re being paid well. It’s the same as the kickback for the doctors.
Basically, the studio is being paid to pretend that the AI they use is as talented as them. It’s not, but they’re clearly getting paid to animate a movie that AI is already taking credit for.
At the end, Sam Altman will use the movie to promote the abilities of AI, when in reality AI can’t make that kind of movie without 30 million and an actual animation studio to do the work.
AI will seem more legitimate. People will use it more despite never getting the results advertised. Mission accomplished.
No, look at this, it’s fundamentally awful! It’s a stylistic decision to omit the mouths of the characters that leads to more expression through the eyes and overall design. The AI is incapable of understanding that and FORCES mouths onto them because things need mouths. Especially the one on the right where like, ugh, what the fuck is going on there. It’s gross, I hate it.
It’s like those high-res texture packs that just upscale everything for the sake of upscaling it and loses all artistic merit or cohesive aesthetic in the process. Fuck this.
The one on the right looks like it has an engorged tick for a nose.
i hope it gets a 15 minute standing boo
Edit: Oops. Didn’t know who the Cannes audience was. The below would only apply if this gets a regular release. /Edit
My guess is the audience simply won’t care and the movie will do reasonably average, depending on the script.
Sure here on a niche forum like Lemmy we care about the incredible energy waste, the artists being exploited, etc, and that “AI art” only looks good from a distance with all the little details being screwed up at a close examination. (When it’s not a lovecraftian horror right on the surface - see “bloopers” in that video in the article)
But the general public? To them “AI” is: Haha, funny Ghibli filter.
I would hardly rate the Cannes film audience as the general public, these are people who have made movies their lives, I’m sure they will all welcome AI made movies lovingly. /s
I feel like the Cannes public will be like Anton Ego from Ratatouille and I only see two possibilities: it goes well or it goes badly.
That’s a good point, I didn’t know much about the Cannes film festival, but after looking it up I agree with you.
My comment would only apply if it sees a public release.
The movies at Cannes don’t even have to make sense really, it’s a celebration of art, film, the spirit of human creativity, of humanity. It’s a bit of a slap in the face imo.
I hope the theater is half empty and the audience just walks out after 15 minutes.
Eh, I think I’ll just rewatch episodes of Bluey instead.
I’d be doing that anyway
