OpenAI will be debuting a film at the Cannes Film Festival. With a budget of $30M or less, and a timeframe of 9 months, the slop they turn in will cost a fraction as much and take a fraction as long to develop as the slop Hollywood normally produces. FWIW though I did find the little video in the WSJ article entertaining, in a deeply unsettling, uncanny-valley kind of way.
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AHahahahaha 30 MILLION?!? AHAHAHAHAHAHA
Holy shit they’re about to prove why it’s better and cheaper to pay humans to animate something than it is to pocket 30 mil while asking a computer to do it.
It is genuinely disgusting to read the budget of this AI movie is going to be 30 million.
With that much money and time, you can also just make a real animated movie with humans doing the drawing.
15 million alone is enough to employ a team of nearly 200 animators at a rate of 75k a year. Which leaves 15 million for marketing.
Let’s see what a team of 200 animators and the same budget can do in the same amount of time.
Fuck AI in its entirety if all it’s doing is taking jobs away from the skilled. All I see here is a grift to pay a team of C-suites the wages of hundreds of artists to find out they don’t know the difference between their ass and a hole in the ground, even after asking Chat GPT.
I can’t wait to see this movie fail. I’ll bet money it’s not even completed by the end of this year. Fucking WASTE of money.
Okay but why would Openai pay 30 million to a normal animation company? That money wouldnt be going to that?
i hope it gets a 15 minute standing boo
Edit: Oops. Didn’t know who the Cannes audience was. The below would only apply if this gets a regular release. /Edit
My guess is the audience simply won’t care and the movie will do reasonably average, depending on the script.
Sure here on a niche forum like Lemmy we care about the incredible energy waste, the artists being exploited, etc, and that “AI art” only looks good from a distance with all the little details being screwed up at a close examination. (When it’s not a lovecraftian horror right on the surface - see “bloopers” in that video in the article)
But the general public? To them “AI” is: Haha, funny Ghibli filter.
I would hardly rate the Cannes film audience as the general public, these are people who have made movies their lives, I’m sure they will all welcome AI made movies lovingly. /s
I feel like the Cannes public will be like Anton Ego from Ratatouille and I only see two possibilities: it goes well or it goes badly.
