Headline, December 14 2024/ A.I. : ''' GENERATIVE KISSES GENEROSITY '''

A.I. : ''' GENERATIVE

 KISSES GENEROSITY '''

'' THE ARTIFICIAL HEART OF FILM '' : AND ' NO Digital clones. We are only humans. '

IN AN era where we can jot-down words in apps and websites, and images - still or animated, with strokes of a renaissance painter, the style of a proper anime or feature film, or the realistic guise of a human being - are rendered in seconds, Ted Sarandos, Netflix's Co-CEO, says that he still has '' more faith in humans.''

'' I don't believe that an AI program is going to write a better screenplay than a great writer, or is going to replace a great performance, or that we won't be able to tell the difference,'' he told The New York Times in May.

'' Enter then Sudowrite,'' an AI writing tool backed by the minor investment of screenwriter John August { Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Aladdin } that, for the price of $22 a month, can help you write a screenplay - words, actions,  perhaps maybe thoughts and all.

'' Blank page, begone, '' reads one of the headlines on the website. The software helps you '' brainstorm '' [ ie generate ] ideas out of thin air, ''write'' automatically with a selected tone, '' describe '' :

The text by reworking it from the sense of sight, smell, taste, sound, touch or metaphor [ yes, these ''senses'' are options one can select to write the words ], rephrase the text to be more '' descriptive '' [ one can select the options to '' show not tell'', or to '' be more intense '' ], and, technically, teach it to write in your style.

If, that is, you have a style - or if you even have the ability to write. Given how fast AI is progressing, the last part is an optional requirement. Like a melting chocolate bar in the hands of a five-year-old, the words '' artificial '' and '' intelligence '' have smeared and seeped into most aspects of filmmaking.

The words, when bundled together, however, mostly represent a misnomer. Unlike scientific and medical research, where the actual prowess of AI is explored - meaning the use of '' intelligence '' is used the way it is meant to - the entertainment industry makes do with a watered-down aspect of the technology called '' generative AI'', ie images conjured up by descriptive words.

In a nutshell, generative AI popularised by programmes such as Adobe's Firefly, Dall-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Flux - is trained on hundreds of millions of reference images, breaking down and cataloguing specific details, be they :

Facial characteristics, colours, hue art and artist style, painting mediums, brush strokes, types of photography, clothes, or era, amongst a myriad other descriptors. The details from these '' text prompts '' then fabricate an image on one's whims.

One can train these data sets to specifically reference anything from tractor designs, to the artistic style of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, to the face of Nicolas Cage [ all three examples can be found at CivitAI a free generative platform ] and one can see how easily the low-bars of the hurdles of ethical use can be hopped over.

The new reality '' really terrifies '' filmmakers such as The Daniels [ Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert ] who made Oscar winning film Everything Everywhere All at Once - a VFX-laden film, produced at a fraction of Hollywood's film cost, exclusively through their human skill.

The technology also scares and exasperates actor Nicolas Cage. '' They're just going to steal my body and do whatever they want with it via digital AI ..............

[God] I'm terrified of that!'' he said in an interview with The New Yorker this past July.

'' It makes me wonder, you know, where will the truth of the artists end up? Is it going to be replaced? Is it going to be transmogrified? Where's the heartbeat going to be? I mean, what are you going to do with my body and my face when I'm dead? I don't want you to do anything with it.

The Honour and Serving of the Latest Global Operational Research on A.I., Emotions and the World, continues. The World Students Society thanks Mohammed Kamran Jawaid.

With respectful dedication to the Students, Professors and Teachers of the World. See You all prepare for Great Global Elections on !WOW! - the exclusive and eternal ownership of every student in the world - : wssciw.blogspot.com and Twitter X !E-WOW! - The Ecosystem 2011 :

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