Hollywood films, like early television were something of a quasi-monopoly product that required special human technical skills and capital to produce. No one needed to add a ‘Don’t try making a movie like this’ at home warning at the start of a feature movie. A.I. has changed that. In the fairly near future virtually anyone with quality A.I. software running on a home computer with enough processing power will be able to order a feature length movie generated for-themselves.
Modern computer technology and software have brought democratic changes to end the exclusivity of writing movie or film scripts that was limited to specialists with degrees in English not uncommonly. Guilds and unions won’t be the primary providers of content design for verbal communication transpiring in films. Artificial intelligence will be able to create complete artificial worlds and dialogues of interest to local individuals with such ease and quantity that every town in the U.S.A. might have countless citizens creating feature films on their home computer in every genre and local backgrounds. Artificial intelligence given image samples can create realistic landscapes compatible with local scenery, culture and dress.
Recent labor union strikes in the film and acting trades have brought up the pathos of human struggle against computers and artificial intelligence that has gone on since typing and office secretary became largely obsolete occupations with the arrival of Windows and MSWORD. Unions understandably don’t want competition from new technology. Like Luddites, unions seeking to arrest the profusion of A.I. created products in order to preserve their occupations will hardly slow the advancing tide of technology. In a better human social environment humans could adapt A.I. safely to augment social ventures. Yet even if an A.I. wrote a modern Utopia of ecological economics that would work better than any existing political system it wouldn’t be given an political interest at all.
Humans will be able to create their own feature films to such an extent that over-the-transom proliferation will stimulate people to find something else to do eventually. Free speech in A.I. generated products with unlimited voice samples and person images artificially generated will enable the rise of an endless variety of actors and actresses working on limitless vistas. At least live humans on Broadway should have job security. A.I. can create new voices and faces with the vast database for synthesizing new already in the public domain.
An endless supply of Oscar winning quality movies created with the help of A.I. may arise under the pressure of international competition in addition to the phenomenon of basement movie studios on-a-chip. Because the cost of creating a movie on a chip will be nearly zero in comparison to the cost of making a film with human actors, directors, screen writers and so forth, independent film creators may experience a substantial quality and quantity production advantage over traditional studios or even those with PIXAR graphics.
I have written a few science fiction novels myself; usually improved first drafts composed in an unheated location in Alaska. It was the pilosophical content that was valuable to me rather than the entertainment value in-itself. A.I. may make the writing of purely entertainment novels competetively obsolete as well as movies. After experiencing the value of A.I. art that is still a very young technology, and asking ChatGPT to write a philosophical sonnet I am persuaded that the appearance of quality novels written by A.I. isn’t too far down the road.
Plainly artificial intelligence as a highly mobile expert system will find applications in virtually every trade from those of being an electrician or plumber to medicine. Bad lawyers with hangovers may take an A.I. companion to court to listen to the opposition and prompt them to enter an objection when relevant simply to create a point of reference for a future appeal. The swamping and bumping of trades from the appearance of A.I. expert systems goes along with the appearance of new human capabilities in so many occupations. It is challenging to believe that congress in a free democratic society with capitalism will find it possible to ban A.I. applications too much. If there are tens of thousands of novels published every day on-line that are free to read it may be difficult for aspiring authors to find a market to sell their own product in since the books usually go for free with top quality.
A.I. will bring large, discomforting changes to society as well good ones. If Elon Musk had installed high quality cameras on his thousands of Starlink satellites around the planet in low Earth orbit A.I. could have used them to gather all kinds of data about the world. A.I. from home computers might have used one or more of the cameras for business purposes including creation of movies. Home dial-in access to live satellite imagery for a few minutes at low cost may be around the corder,
There is a dark side to A.I. as well as good. Without question A.I. imagery might notice fine details in live pollution, deforestation and wildfire events that some may not want observed. Skynet terminator/Forbin Project, HAL, The Cell events could be scripted by programmers and filter in as easily as fragrance on an evening breeze intentionally r unintentionally. For certain the Congress hasn’t the intellect or will to know what to do with A.I., pay down the public debt, end poverty globally or restore the vital health of the world ecosphere.
For the interim the rise of A.I. art in film may make a a few thousand interesting productions for Neflix style outlets for those interested, to watch. Writing screenplays for A.I. production will be something of a new field for-itself. Providing prompts and directions/suggestions for scene constructions and dialogue with a fuzzy logic letting free reign for the A.I. that has every novel, play and movie ever published in its database to draw upon differs from creating action scenes with comparatively sparse on-camera dialogue. It will be interesting to view the adventures of Dorothee and her little dog tow-tow taking their supra-dimensional Kansas farmhouse to a different planet; a different galaxy each week to make landfall on their five-year mission to find new subscribers where none have existed before.
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