Lionsgate has become the first significant Hollywood studio to go all-in on AI. The company today announced a “first-of-its-kind” partnership with AI research company Runway to create and train an exclusive new AI model based on its portfolio of film and tv content.
Lionsgate’s exclusive model will be used to generate what it calls “cinematic video” which can then be further iterated using Runway’s technology. The goal is to save money – “millions and millions of dollars” according to Lionsgate studio vice chairman Michael Burns – by having filmmakers and creators use its AI model to replace artists in production tasks such as storyboarding.
In corporate jargon terminology, Burns said that AI will be used to “develop cutting-edge, capital-efficient content creation opportunities.” He added that “several of our filmmakers are already excited about its potential applications to their pre-production and post-production process.”
Again, why are we having AI take over the creative jobs? Making music, art, writing, voice acting, etc. Let’s train AI to work retail so that burnout cashier can finally learn how to play guitar like they’ve been putting off because they have to work 50+ hours a week.
Clerks don’t cost as much as creatives. Eventually they’ll come for the clerks too.
Because mistakes are less obvious, and when they do happen tend to be subjective and hard to “prove”. You can do a creative job poorly and it might be a while before anyone catches on, so AI gets to just sort of squat there while AI companies pretend LLMs are capable of genuine creative output.
Any job that has an objectively correct result from the work being done will be screwed up by AI on day one, if not immediately.
See also: AI written code
Exactly fuck AI companies. Seriously all fucking shit jobs that could be done by robots and yet instead they taking all the fun stuff and our hobbies and runing them.
As a writer I guess just mark my books human written and people should only read, buy and watch content only made by humans and let AI die until corporations get the fucking hint.
Go get a fucking robot to work the factory jobs and leave our creative work alone.
Like learn how to play guitar in the street cause they lost their job and need new money now? Cause I don’t see how using AI forces a company to contribute anything at all in a funding of general basic income or how it’s called…
I get what you’re saying, and agree, but “cashier” is perhaps not the best example? Self check outs have been around for ages and Amazon (I think?) has those “just walk out” stores that are supposed to be AI powered. I seem to recall reading that the just walk out stores were actually powered by cheaper “cashiers”, in another country, but - it shows they’re working on it.
I believe Amazon doesn’t do the “just walk out” thing anymore because it didn’t work very well.
Yes, and it wasn’t AI powered. It was a ton of exploited outsourced workers working for nearly nothing watching the camera feeds.