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I Saw the Future of AI Film and It Was Empty
Runway AI paired up with Imax to screen 10 AI-generated winning selections. The festival has been derided by some cinephiles, while others insist it’s part of a natural technological evolution.
With its bold pastel color palette, the rotoscope animated More Tears Than Harm, by Herinarivo Rakotomanana, superficially evoked the work of American primitivist painter Horace Pippin (who is one of my favorite artists). Generative AI has drawn criticism for its massive draw on natural resources, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitting that the proliferation of data centers is pretty much unsustainable without considerable developments in nuclear fusion. Petermann’s reflections are refreshing, in large part because generative AI technologies are so typically pushed to people in his exact demographic: wannabe filmmakers with big ideas but little in the way of tools, money, or institutional support.
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