What does it mean to democratize art? Will AI empower artists, replace them, or something else?
A new series of Sora-generated short films, made by artists and other creatives, was recently released. They're clever, beautiful, witty, touching, and they take advantage of the technology’s unique capabilities. Obviously there’s a lot of human ingenuity behind these AI-assisted works. Interestingly, in the film “Air Head” the artists decided to show no faces, circumventing the risk of uncanny changes in appearance from shot to shot. Other films, like the one by Paul Trillo, harness that same uncanniness as a form of expressionism, showing figures morphing into abstract shapes.
Many of the films are notably strange and otherworldly. That seems to be a strength of Sora. One of the artists is quoted as saying, “what excites us is its ability to make things that are totally surreal.”
Is this the direction that AI-generated content will go? Surrealism? And as AI content permeates the internet and even the real world, what will that mean for the surreality of our actual reality? Will our ground truth become increasingly fantastical?
The release of these short films seems like a big step. What are the implications for disciplines like cinematography, acting, even camera manufacturing? In this new landscape, what does it even mean to create something at all?
Will art be democratized? Should art be democratized?
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