To make his short, "Mnemonade," really sing, Meta Puppet says he focused on giving the story some emotional heft. "I don't think AI films will go fully mainstream until we get emotional dialog." He played all the roles in his short, about the poignance of sense memory and an elderly woman's loss of memory, using AI from Silicon Valley "unicorn" ElevenLabs to shift his vocal performance into each character's range and voice.
Maddie Hong, who went head-to-head with Meta Puppet in the Culver Cup finals, says that she understands Hollywood's trepidation when it comes to AI. "There's more potential for legal backlash and financial loss," she says, referring to the danger of unintended (or even flagrant) copyright infringement during generation. The studios also have a "higher standard for image continuity," Hong says, "given that they're thinking about distribution on all types of platforms and screens."
If you look at Hollywood today," Jain says, "the majority of the high-budget productions are just recycling old franchises because it's too tough to bet on a new idea or a new franchise. It's just safer, he says, to reproduce something than it is to imagine something new.
I would actually posit," Jain adds, "that people will actually have far better careers that are more fulfilling and long-lasting when they're able to produce things that people actually do want to watch."
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