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Engadget Podcast: Ancestra director Eliza McNitt defends AI as a creative tool


We chat with the VR artist Eliza McNitt, who tapped into Google's AI to tell a deeply personal story.

Working with Google Deepmind and director Darren Aronofsky's studio Primordial Soup, McNitt used a combination of live-action footage and AI-generated media to tell the story of her own traumatic birth. The film begins when the lead's (Audrey Corsa, playing McNitt's mother) routine natal care appointment turns into an emergency delivery. In the case of Ancestra, she wanted to use AI to accomplish difficult work, like creating a computer generated infant that looked like her, based on photos taken by her father.

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