> I hate to say it. It's likely over for us." He goes on to say that soon people will be able to sit at a computer and milk a franchise to death without industry involvement

Well, you are using people's image without permission, to promote your service.

> the cinema industry isn't happy,

Future post:

Industry makes 'campaign contributions' to have its 'right' to on-demand pony-delivery codified in law.

Have Xi fighting Winnie the Pooh and see how quickly it gets regulated.

We already say that match up back in [1]1998 [imdb.com]. And Brad Pitt v. Keanu Reeves back in [2]1999 [imdb.com]. What a time to be alive!

I think in the AI generated video that the 4 inch height difference between the two men was not as apparent as it should be. Perhaps Cruise is in platforms?

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4800884/?ref_=ttep_ep_8

[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0537959/?ref_=ttep_ep_20

Turnabout fair play? Create "uncomfortable" videos using the likeness of the creators of these copyright violating vids. See how they react to hundreds or thousands of fake videos portraying them doing all sorts of things or participating in all sorts of activities.

When OpenAI stole Studio Ghibli's look

If it can be done it will be done.

The choice is do you want to ride the train or be left standing at the station when it's gone?

If movies can be made this way, and if they are "good", and if people will watch them, then they will be made this way.

We already have some virtual movie stars, virtual bands, and virtual singers.

"The Barbara Streisand Effect will increase the viral potential of your movie. Instead of making a regular clip from The Golden Girls, this new feature will replace the women with Golden Grahams to meet a younger target audience."

(BTW, this idea is copyrighted by me. It can't be used to train AI.)

The positive outcome is that within the next few years, this can of quality will be available to interested amateurs.

Of there'll be quite a lot of trash (usual proportion of any creative medium, I imagine, so around 90%), but we may yet see things like Star Wars redeemed.

I can't be the only one who would like to watch a good adaptation of Zahn's trilogy?

Erm, what ?!

They criticized a TOOL for what it was used to create ?

Rather than the people who ran the tool and asked it to create something they don't like ?

Should we criticize guns for all the school massacres ? BAD GUNS !

Actually bothered watching the movie. It looks really fake. Polished, but really fake. Of course, that just means that it looks very much like the kind of boring, canned fight choreography you would expect in many big budget films where the script itself basically says "insert fight scene here", so I can see why an MPA/MPAA CEO would be worried. Oh, and my heart truly, truly weeps for them, really. Basically, if an extraordinarily generic fight scene generated from recycled crap with different actors faces pasted on makes them worried, I think that demonstrates a lot about what they think about the art of film making.

There is a decent point in there though. One that should be considered by any of the big businesses trying to replace all of their employees with AI (and that includes the big AI companies looking at valuations in the hundreds of billions or even in the trillions), and that is that is that spread of this technology really can lead to a future where these big money industries that centralize all this power and control can end up obsolete. Of course, as they realize this, that could mean that they see that the world is changing and realize that new ways of doing things are coming. Small creators in their homes will be able to do most of what they can do, so they need to provide something better or be irrelevant. For the AI companies, the computing power and resources for AI could sit on people's desktops, in their handheld devices, etc. working directly for people and using public repositories of knowledge not controlled by anyone (I mean, not current "AI" necessarily, but some future AI) and not controlling them, tracking all of their personal details to commercialize them, etc. They could see that. More likely though, they will see that now is the time to use their existing power, control, and wealth to lock things in so that they can extract rents from us forever.

So, just a bit more on the video. Amazingly generic. Fight on a rooftop with cityscape in the background. Lots of posing, extremely basic fighting moves cribbed from other fight scenes. I could swear that last kick was ripped right out of a Chuck Norris movie from about forty years ago. They start by running at each other in a long shot, then slowing and basically winding up fro a punch in extremely generic fight choreography. The motion is choppy, the faces are blurry, mask-like, and a little distorted, which is hidden by the jerky motion. The fight moves are just a bunch of pretty basic punches and blocks except for that last kick and block. There's a punch at about 0:10 where Cruise punches (connects? misses? doesn't seem like it makes a difference to the other guys face), doesn't withdraw his arm, then Pitt blocks his arm, then makes another move to deflect it (an arm that's just held out pointlessly after the punch) after the punch. That last kick at the end, there was too much distance between them for it to have much of a chance of contact. For the majority of their punches, in fact, they weren't closing. Basically, this wasn't just a fake AI generated fight, it was an fake AI generated fake fight. The fighting was all the kind of choreography that Hollywood uses for closeup shots of multimillion faces fighting, where the faces are too precious for real fighting moves, but they really want to show the action hero faces.

I don't know. Someone else might have a different opinion on it, but it mostly seems like crap to me. A threat to Hollywood crap sure, but still crap. Of course, at this point I am tempted to tell everyone to get off my lawn, so take with a grain of salt.

Oh wait, I know the issue here. It's rich people that are being affected now. People who make propaganda people who gate keep media. The rest of us can get replaced by automation just fine. Maybe if we're lucky they'll print trillions of dollars, give us a basis income, and give us seed oil slop and printed chicken to buy it with.