AI-Assisted Diesel Founder Documentary Premieres in Venice
The Spin
Pro-establishment narrative
AI in film is a tool, not a takeover, and it's already doing beautiful work by de-aging actors, protecting activists' identities in human rights documentaries and rescuing damaged prints. When images get cheap, taste and point of view become the scarce thing worth paying for. Every technological upheaval from talkies to digital sparked panic, then a creative renaissance, and this one will too.
Establishment-critical narrative
Whether it's realistic or not, AI-generative video is reconstituted, soulless slop that bypasses the obsessive human labor that makes art worth watching. The industry behind it drains public resources and pays third-world workers a few dollars an hour to wade through the internet's worst filth. Handing culture to that machine degrades human life rather than enhancing it.