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The arrival in our midst of synthetic media generated from text prompts has caused disquiet. Individuals are concerned that their skills, knowledge and experience are under threat like never before. However, creating stories that deal with the complexities and chemistries of life remains beyond the capability of artificial intelligence.
At the moment, machine learning is really mostly being used by the major studios for prediction and analysis. It’s also being used to do things that would be otherwise impossible to achieve (think the orc scenes in The Lord Of Th Rings) and to create “new forms of moving image art”.
Perhaps most importantly, machine learning is being used to help today’s content producers; to organise editors’ footage logically and recall camera angles and scenes or sections of dialogue, for example..
Elsewhere, in restoration, algorithms can be created to remove dirt and scratches from old prints and repair artefacts caused by warp and flicker.
Convincing de-aging in movies and high-end TV remains a huge challenge. Even the most recent examples fail to fully bridge ‘the uncanny valley’ and avoid criticism. This is something that can only really be solved using neural networks
Add to that debates around the idea of ‘AI-as-lead’ and “likeness rights” and the cognitive dissonance of knowing the actor walking the planet looks nothing like the version we’re being shown on screen. This becomes doubly difficult when what we are watching is a “synthetic resurrection”.
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Source: Wired