Was hoping to see some detail about just how good/bad the film was at that budget. Disappointed to see it was just harping on how "official" it was, which I doubt many interested in seeing a film care about.
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#62> The creators of “Hell Grind” are also making striking claims. The film supposedly took just two weeks and $500,000 to make, per the WSJ. A full 80 percent of that went to compute costs; its creators describe it as a proof-of-concept for how AI can empower creatives who wouldn’t otherwise have the means to make a movie
I thought AI was supposed to be democratizing creativity and putting the power of Hollywood into the hands of regular people? What regular person can afford that kind of price tag? Isn't inference supposed to be cheap?
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
> While $500k 90m movie done in two weeks is an accomplishment Is it, though? If all you want is a movie, you can make it for both less money and less time. And if you actually have some modicum of talent, you can make it higher-quality to boot; see Joel Haver, who challenged himself to author, film, edit, and release 12 feature-length films during the course of 2024 on effectively no budget whatsoever (playlist here…
True - your comment reminded me of Cube; that was done in 3 weeks, with budget of $350,000 CAD (according to wikipedia). Another favorite of mine - Primer = 5 weeks with budget of $7k. edit: looking at others, Pi - 4w and $130k
> Cube; that was done in 3 weeks
The cube was not “done” in 3 weeks. Maybe they shot it in 3 weeks, but there were years of pre-production, and at least months of post-production. (According to wikipedia.)
Saying that it was done in 3 weeks is like saying that windows 11 was done in 45 minutes, because that is how long the compilation lasted.
> with budget of $350,000 CAD
“50% of the budget as C$350,000 to C$375,000 in cash and the other 50% as donated services, for a total of C$700,000. Natali considered the cash figure to be deceptive, because they deferred payment on goods and services, and got the special effects at no cost.”
Direct quote from wikipedia.
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#64If you are going to fake being director and fake making a film, why not fake release it?
What part of the directing and making is fake? Does the film not exist? Was it not made by a team creating and sewing clips together under the direction of someone?
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#65between this and the 'ai actress' who got press in variety; and with the 'friend.com' bits. The ai industry has gotten good at stunt marketing, or maybe it's payola
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#67OP article is an LLM-rewrite of this Futurism article: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/cannes-not-show...
Should be grounds to blacklist a domain IMO
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#68> Higgsfield, a San Francisco startup valued at $1.3 billion.. Tesla Robo Taxi, the clean up robot that break AirBnB furnature, this Ai Movie compani .. All news from THIS week about companies that just lie to get ahead. I'm tired of move fast and break things.
You are tired, i'm tired.
Next month is the IPO of Space-X which will be worth trillions because sending people to mars and building data centers in space is a trillion dollar business now...
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#69The trailer is also awful. A slopfest impossible to follow. The editing is nauseating, the sound design is uninspired and the visual quality is hallucinatory.
Which could fill a niche I suppose, but I doubt it'll ever have market appeal. Not in the current iteration, at best it'll be used as part of a production, e.g. to recreate or de-age older / dead actors, as a replacement or addition to what CGI and similar visual effects are used for right now. But there will never be a successful, fully AI generated film. I don't believe it, anyway.
> But there will never be a successful, fully AI generated film.
Check again in a couple of years.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
The 'simple fix' to attacks on culture and institutions is obviously not "just stop reading the news" Apathy is for cowards.
I think being constantly outraged over stuff happening to no one I personally know for twenty years that will never affect my daily life has become too exhausting for me to keep it up, and I'm not convinced my learning about it is helping anyone. It's not changing how I vote. Apply whatever insult you want to it, but I'm finished. Making a data center in my home town? I'm going to do anything I can to stop it. Entert…
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