The director of French traditional “Amelie” stated he was fascinated however often scared by synthetic intelligence as he launched a first-ever competition for AI-generated motion pictures on Wednesday.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet will function head of the jury for the Artefact AI Film Festival, whose awards ceremony will happen in November.
Anyone can enter a brief movie — as much as 5 minutes in size — so long as it makes use of AI instruments in some a part of its manufacturing, from script writing and storyboarding to picture era, enhancing, music or different features.
“Everything that’s happening at the moment — whether it’s deepfakes, voice dubbing — it fascinates me,” stated Jeunet, who was Oscar-nominated for “Amelie” in 2002.
He informed reporters he had requested ChatGPT to give you concepts for a sequel to his hit movie, “but I had to stop because it scared me”.
But Jeunet, who additionally made the gory sci-fi “Delicatessen” (1991), stated he was not apprehensive about AI-generated motion pictures changing conventional movies.
“There will always be films made by hand,” he stated, earlier than taking a light-hearted swipe at Hollywood blockbusters.
“Maybe not the Marvel films, since the scripts written by AI could not be any more stupid than the ones they have done up to now,” he stated.
The competition is being overseen by Artefact, an AI consultancy agency, whose consultants will probably be tasked with making certain there isn’t any breach of copyright or different moral norms in the way in which AI is used within the quick movies.
“We are in a moment of audiovisual revolution — it’s important that we address it,” stated Elisha Karmitz of the manufacturing firm and cinema chain MK2, which is a accomplice of the competition.
“The goal of the festival is to promote creativity via the use of AI, and make it more accessible,” he stated.
Budding filmmakers can have till October 1 to submit their entries. As nicely as a number of prizes, the most effective will even be proven forward in MK2 cinemas.
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