AI is here – make no mistake…it’s going to have a real impact on the creative industry, writers, actors, music….the lot. So we can either fight, deny or find a way to live with and work with it. I don’t think we have a choice. There will be Producers rubbing their hands with delight…costs down, no more difficult creatives to work with. Well think again people…don’t believe it in the long run. The audiences will get bored with watching artificially created entertainment without the authentic human experience.
I work with an excellent Director, Drew Garcia and he asked me to be the voice of the character “Luma” in his little animated film THE WAy UP. I was happy to do it. Drew tells me that much of the initial animation was drafted by AI.. Now this would have taken months to do in the tradional method, using a mixture of character and location designed and drawn by humans and then many more months creating and animating the film frame by frame. Computer graphics started to creep in in the 1940s/50s and has been developing since then, with computer generated images – CGI – being used more and more. The technology has been around a long time and it is only recently that generative AI has come on the scene, alarming many of us creatives? Will it replace us? I think not.
Drew wrote the story, created it with the help of AI, directed and edited the film – very much the human element and furthermore he invited Robin Hoffmann to score the film. Robin went on then record the wonderful music he wrote with a complete symphony orchestra, all humans…not a robot in sight. I too am human and and am the voice of “Luma”. AI has a supporting position, far from the whole. The film simply would not be the same as a wholly AI created film,
I believe it will never completely replace humans, because it is artificial, not born of the human heart and experience, which it can imitate, but never fully replace. The human soul is unique – I hope I am right.
I am in the midst of a film, I wrote – ANDY- at the moment on this very subject, hopefully soon to be completed… 60% done and now looking for the funds to finish – Indie Filming is a hard road!
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