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    1. > Speaking at the BFI London Film Festival, Guillermo del Toro talked about generative A.I. and its effect on the film industry. The filmmaker isn’t all that concerned by it for one main reason—A.I. can’t create true art.

      > “AI has demonstrated that it can do semi-compelling screensavers. That’s essentially that,” said del Toro. “The value of art is not how much it costs and how little effort it requires, it’s how much would you risk to be in its presence? How much would people pay for those screensavers? Are they gonna make them cry because they lost a son? A mother? Because they misspent their youth? Fuck no.”

    2. Nerdlinger on

      And as we all know, they have completely stopped developing the technology and thus won’t improve at all over time.

    3. Completely detached from reality. Time will prove him wrong unfortunately. AI is getting better every single second.

    4. IntoTheMusic on

      Just wait until the day that he has to apologize to A.I. for saying this about them lol

    5. “The value of art is not how much it costs and how little effort it requires, it’s how much would you risk to be in its presence?” 🐐

    6. gravitywind1012 on

      Well he clearly hasn’t seen “Unanswered Oddities” and “The Cop Files.” Oscar worthy 🏆

    7. imustbedead on

      Del toro makes commercial movies for the industry.

      I personally have seen some amazing ART pieces generated by AI. Sure a big mountain of it is crap, but my god sometimes it nails it, and you wouldn’t know a simple prompt and computer made it.

      He dunno what he’s talking about, maybe if he was talking about movie making, but we all know AI is getting real good at that also.

    8. Balerion_thedread_ on

      Only people excited about AI are the non creative fucks that have no talent or skill

    9. HapsburgWolf on

      Part of the allure of Art is the mystery behind the human effort that it took to think through and create the Art. Why choose this particular piece? What was the thought process? How did the production process evolve? What mistakes happened along the way? A piece of Art contains the story of human struggle, making it admirable and brave, and far more interesting than anything a machine could produce.

    10. JazzCompose on

      One way to view generative Al:

      Generative Al tools may randomly create billions of content sets and then rely upon the model to choose the “best” result.

      Unless the model knows everything in the past and accurately predicts everything in the future, the “best” result may contain content that is not accurate (i.e. “hallucinations”).

      If the “best” result is constrained by the model then the “best” result is obsolete the moment the model is completed.

      Therefore, it may be not be wise to rely upon generative Al for every task, especially critical tasks where safety is involved.

      What views do other people have?

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