"If you're worried about AI taking over the entertainment industry, close your eyes for a moment and imagine your worst case scenario. What kind of villains do you picture? Soulless corporate executives gleefully watching their bottom lines go up while they slash thousands of human jobs? Insufferable tech bros hi-fiving each other at the notion that their lack of creative talent no longer prevents them from flooding the internet with anti-woke "Star Wars" rip-offs generated by typing a few lazy prompts into an app?"
"A seasoned veteran of the American indie film scene, his offbeat comedies have been popping up in places like Sundance, SXSW, and Adult Swim for the better part of three decades. He cut his teeth shooting 35mm films before digital editing was invented. He self distributed his early movies by cold-calling theaters under fake names and convincing them to screen his single 35mm print until he had to drive it to another venue."
Imaginings of AI-driven cultural villains — corporate executives, tech entrepreneurs, and homebound extremists producing deepfakes — contrast with the real-life case of Todd Rohal. Rohal is a seasoned American indie filmmaker whose offbeat comedies have played Sundance, SXSW, and Adult Swim for nearly three decades. He learned filmmaking on 35mm, self-distributed early features by cold-calling theaters, and famously buried a personal 35mm print and burned remaining DVDs. Rohal received death threats after adapting Johnny Ryan's underground graphic novel into the shock-driven film Fuck My Son!, a midnight-style picture featuring extreme transgressive scenes.
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