“In two years this jug of milk I left out at room temperature will be so good no one will care or not that it isn’t real milk!”
“In two years this jug of milk I left out at room temperature will be so good no one will care or not that it isn’t real milk!”
Disagree, I care. I don’t want to watch AI ‘actors’
You know it is funny, AI people seem to say all the time “Remember when people said CGI would ruin movies and tv shows? No one cares now!” which mystifies me because conversations about how awesome live-action movies are with practical effects are super common among film nerds I have found?
CGI can be cool but like… yes people complain about the ways in which it allows cinema to be cheapened all of the time? That isn’t a good defense of AI?
I wouldn’t consider myself a film nerd, but I can enjoy a good movie with CGI done well. At the same time, I would agree I prefer practical effects over CGI most of the time, it just looks ‘cooler’ to me.
My statement was more specific to inclusion of actors that are AI, which I hope doesn’t become a thing.
In general, I prefer when special effects are planned well and given the time and budget to be great, often times that results in a combination practical and CG effect, but the artists work hard to realize the shared human vision either way.
People hate CGI, because when they notice it, it’s done poorly. It’s done poorly either because technology doesn’t exist yet for it to be great or more often the case- when it’s under funded.
The whole point of media is to share a fundamental human experience, to reflect emotions, and to share an intended meaning. AI can’t do that.
Avatar and Avatar 2 are in the top 3 of box-office successes.
Yes, some people care.
But if you want to make a box-office success, it is irrelevant. People will rush to see a ‘good’ CG movie and will probably rush to see a ‘good’ AI movie. “Hey, this one has Sean Connery and Harrison Ford in the Marvel Universe!”
Disagreeing with Kassovitz from an artistic point of view makes sense, but from a business perspective, sadly, he is probably right.