Inside Hollywood's AI Power Struggle: Where Does Human Creativity Go From Here?

Film festival directors Peter Issac Alexander and Marisa Cohen said that when they first saw the film, they thought it was interesting, creative and unlike anything their review committee had seen before. The flick, a historical movie about an artist from an Italian director, met all the necessary criteria to be screened in front of a live audience and so it was, during last year's Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology. But after the film was over, some members of the audience started loudly booing. The reason? A disclosure in the credits that read the film was "a blend of artificial intelligence and human creativity." Out of the 180 or so films screened at last year's festival, only a few had generative AI elements — many submissions didn't make the cut because it was clear that AI had been used to create the whole movie, which the festival doesn't allow. Despite Alexander and Cohen's personal reservations and serious concerns around generative AI, they know AI has be ... Read full article.