My dad’s been an independent filmmaker/producer before I was born. He’s made about five or six films over the years, and I’ve been around to see him make two of them, when I was 9 or 11. He used to go off on trips to different locations every now and again and would be gone for a few days to shoot. I remember seeing one of his films in theaters. But he’s been writing films since his time in college back in the 90s. Cut to 2026. I’m 17 and I’ve always been something of a writer myself. Right now I’m working on a pulp-noir novel long term, and while he’s more attuned to screenplays than I am and vice versa, he’ll be talking about a part of the process and I’ll get it, you know? So whether that’s an openly expressed thing or not, it’s something we both understand as creative people. But things are different for my dad now. He’s in his 50s and given the current economy, its rough to make an independent film. The people he used to work with—some of them aren’t around anymore or busy themselves, so putting s team together would be ROUGH. There are a lot of AI tools for filmmakers now, and he’s been using something called Kling for his stuff. Do the short films he makes look good? Not really, but it clearly makes him happy to be able to do something, you know? I don’t even think or know if monetization is the goal or not. Some people start out with AI, I’m sure, having never learned how to use or pick up a camera. Meanwhile, my Dad lived in the first and is now trying to adapt to the second. So while he understands my feelings on AI, another common understanding is that shit costs, especially for a film. It’s cheaper to write than it is to produce a whole damn movie, and I understand that. Filmmaking, in general, has never been glamorous. He claims to have more creative control as well, and while I don’t agree with it—you’re asking something based on probability to do something for you, you can’t convince me that you actually did anything besides hand off the job to something else—it still makes him happy. While my personal misgivings toward AI are still there, I’ve decided it doesn’t really matter here, because I understand WHY. But at the end of the day I don’t know what it’s all for. Art doesn’t make money in many cases and it shouldn’t be a driver, that I’ve learned a long time ago. But clearly it’s a pay to win system, but provided that it’s cheaper to use a company model versus what he was spending with a film, where you would have to get the money from someone else and all that…it’s clearly better for him. What do you all think? I still feel conflicted but I guess that’s normal. As a writer I see AI-generated prose all the time and it makes my skin crawl, I’m that kinda bloke lol submitted by /u/TvHead9752
Originally posted by u/TvHead9752 on r/ArtificialInteligence