The 98 minute feature film had a $500,000 production budget, $400,000 of which was AI compute costs.
Looks pretty realistic to me. Movie trailer below.
Here’s a write up on the Kazakh firm that produced the film.
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Interesting but hard to tell how realistic it is because everything but the 3 characters is sci-fi. Do a remake of “Casablanca” and see how real it looks. Things are close.
Close or not. Why do we want this? Must we keep taking the humanity out of life?
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Because it is cheap and fast. And there is often demand for things that are cheap and fast, rather than hand-crafted but expensive and time-consuming.
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Cheaper and faster.
As an aside, my former hometown has a well known author/artist named William Joyce. He has been involved in several big animation movies/shorts winning many awards including an Oscar. He is currently producing a new movie, all back home, intentionally staying away from Hollywood for various reasons. Not sure how much will be AI/CGI.
The take home, more stories can be told that otherwise wouldn’t get the time of day from big business Hollywood.
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Yep. That’s the power of AI film making, the low production costs open up the activity to more people. Just like youtube.
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Youtube opened up the door to an incredible amount of junk. But… it was still HUMAN.
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Yes, a lot of junk, but there are a few high quality content creators like Veritasium that you’d never see on corporate media.
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Netflix wants it. The Netflix search is like the Google search. Look up your topic and have something on the TV in the background. A lot of AI movies have been put together for this on Netflix.
It did, but a surprising amount of quality content as well.
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I just watched the trailer. The humans still don’t move completely realistically (for example, look at the face of the guy rapping), so the AI isn’t there yet. But it’ll get there.
People seem to like to watch animation, cartoons etc and they aren’t human. But the stories were created by a human (at least I think so). Now a story teller that doesn’t have a big budget and access to famous multi-millionaire actors can compete, perhaps.
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More and more AI on YouTube. I despise the AI music creators who are dishonest about it and provide no disclaimer, but actually create entire false narratives about the ‘artists’ and their histories, etc.
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I’m waiting to hear from Blind Lemon Algorhythm.
Here’s the famous five-fingered blues singer, Bertha Mae Lightning.
Thanks for posting. This guy does a great take-down of the phony AI music production.
So…a lot of this AI music sounds pretty good, but just be honest about it and quit pretending it is NOT AI.
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He does a good job of calling out vocal correction and AI fakery. But his passion shows for his love of real human performance and talent. It’s really heartwarming to see Fil smile at a great performance.
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