Is A.I. The Future of Art and Filmmaking?

Emmy - award winning filmmaker, Brian Kissig shares his thoughts on if A.I. (artificial intelligence) really is the future of the filmmaking and art industries. Programs such as Stable Diffusion and Midjourney make it easy to create art in seconds. Runway ML allows for quick rotoscoping for visual effects shots. A.I. can be used a tool to help enhance your creative work, but it's future use can be overwhelming to think about.

Runway ML

Midjourney:

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Hi Brian, I just want to say that you were my literal childhood, those skits you made with your brother were always so inspiring when I watched them, I just wanted to say thank you for making a big part of my childhood ❤

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In Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, music and books are generated by machines. These aren't the high-brow music or novels, but the cheap ditties and guilty pleasures enjoyed by the masses. Is replacing the generating of such 'art' by humans truly a loss? Not all art is an expression of creativity, like those cheap paperback novels that are essentially mass-produced, or graphics that illustrate soul-less company websites (hi Google), or pop music that is more produced to have Something New on the radio rather than due to creative expression.

While in Orwell's world, creativity has been more or less extinguished, perhaps we can see a reality in which as you said machine-generated content and creative productions can coexist. If artists and writers can be freed from the tedium of all that is not truly creative, then where lies the problem? This isn't too different from other soul-less jobs that are being automated away through machine models, such as clerical work at law firms and the like.

As long as we can ensure that people will still have a home, food and happiness even after this machine revolution, we may actually come out ahead. Would be nice to not have a dystopian future for a change, to be honest :)