Apparently is not exactly new news, but I read today that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decided that if a film is made using AI it is still eligible for an Oscar. And surprise, surprise, AI generated music is also eligible for a Grammy.
Hmmm… what do I think of that?
I can imagine a circumstance whereby AI is used to assist in the production of a movie. For example, I know that BorisFX has won an Oscar in the Technical and Engineering division for SilhouetteFX, its rotoscoping technology, and the company has also won Emmys for other programs / apps in its stable.
RedGiant, now owned by Maxon has also won a whole pile of awards for its apps and programs, and while a major like an Oscar or an Emmy is still not in the trophy cabinet, many films that have used its tools HAVE won including Avatar, Ex Machina and The Martian.
But I think it is true to say that an Oscar or whatever is won based on the human intervention, the use of the tool, not just because of the tool itself.
So, I think that if I went to ChatGPT and asked it to write a film script on say, a science fiction theme of Mankind versus machine, and then used other AI tools to actually create the scenes, then no way in the world should an AI generated film be eligible. All the AI did at the end of the day is pick up the scrapings of human ideas and cobble something together.
It didn’t actually THINK of an idea itself. There is no sentience. Or imagination, or empathy. In fact there is no emotion at all, and art cannot be art – whether it be a novel, a painting, a poem, a piece of music or a film, without emotion.
Anyway, in thinking about it, at this point in the life of AI technology anyway, I don’t think it would be anywhere near the league of what a human generated movie would be like, so its chances are next to nil anyway.
Moot point at the end of the day.