The Mirage of Progress
Note: This is a reposted entry from S*bstack. If you read it there, it’s the same. On the occasion of the release of my new AI-assisted short film, Oasis, and the emergence of Runway’s Gen-2 (not to mention Adobe Firefly), I’ve been once again thinking about AI video and its implications on the future of film. I originally started this essay two months ago, when Runway’s Gen-1 had just been announced, but after playing around with Gen-1 a bit and my own experience using AI for filmmaking with...
The Mirage of Progress
Note: This is a reposted entry from S*bstack. If you read it there, it’s the same. On the occasion of the release of my new AI-assisted short film, Oasis, and the emergence of Runway’s Gen-2 (not to mention Adobe Firefly), I’ve been once again thinking about AI video and its implications on the future of film. I originally started this essay two months ago, when Runway’s Gen-1 had just been announced, but after playing around with Gen-1 a bit and my own experience using AI for filmmaking with...
