Runway AI partnered with IMAX to screen ten AI-generated winning selections, eliciting both derision and defense from cinephiles. Paul Schrader publicly questioned whether future films like Dune 3 could be made by AI and how audiences would recognize such a shift. Many viewers perceive modern Hollywood imagery as sleek and antiseptic, lacking distinct personality and appearing computerlike. Most generative AIs train on large collections of human-made images, yet some major films seemed influenced by AI-generated visuals and wallpaper aesthetics despite limited machine-learning use. Core questions remain about whether AI video generators can share an aesthetic or possess ideas and values, with skepticism toward AI intentionality.
Last year, filmmaker Paul Schrader-the director of Blue Collar, American Gigolo, and First Reformed, and writer of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver-issued what seemed like the last word on artificial intelligence in Hollywood filmmaking. A few days after the release of Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi blockbuster Dune: Part Two, Schrader asked his Facebook followers: "Will Dune 3 be made by AI? And, if it is, how will we know?"
It spoke to a mounting feeling among many filmgoers, myself included: that Hollywood had stooped to producing sleek, antiseptic images so devoid of personality that they might as well have been made not by a living, breathing, thinking, feeling artist, but by a computer. Most generative AIs "train" on existing troves of man-made images. With Dune, the opposite seemed true. It appeared as if Villeneuve was training on AI conjurations, screensavers, and glossy desktop wallpapers.
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