It is again at that time. Let’s dive back in a deep conversation about the complex world of AI-based film and photography.
In September 2022, I wrote an article for FSTOPPers, which was titled, The danger of artificial intelligence and how we can respond as artistsAt that time, the general public was becoming aware of names such as midzorney, Dal-E and Chatgip, and technology was seen as less than a curiosity. But, as a working artist, who lives my life with my passion, it was clear to me that this small curiosity was only the tip of the iceberg.
I had immediate reservation about AI -two, especially – both are unresolved. An artist versus machine had a clear question. Can a device promise to generate an immediate looking images, a professional threat to photographers that create images of making a living in real life? Second, there is still a more question for me, the fact that the abilities of these AI systems to produce such realistic results are fundamentally based on the comprehensive theft of intellectual property from human artists without their consent. It is one thing to be a new contestant on the field. It is completely another that the work of your life is stolen without any recurrence, then asked to compete against you, essentially, in the already crowded market.
The concept of adequately compensating for the artists whose work was stolen to train the AI model, for me, the primary moral question within our March towards the new era. This is the question whether AI will ever be able to make the spirit of real photography suitable or whether or not a real human being can imitate, it is more case than being really more. Essentially, the equipment currently existing, now has become advanced at the point where even a trained eye can be distinguished from human-generated material. If we really want to do nightpic, it is possible to argue that the AI-related material is still not. But whatever is not distant in the controversy, is that in about three years, since I first wrote about AI, whatever you can complete with it has increased the level of the leap and limit. I am not arguing that the system has reached perfection. But it was compared to three years ago, I think it is safe to say that technology is moving faster than any other technological innovation in the recent memory and will revive the society in the same way as the industrial revolution, the birth of the Internet and the arrival of social media.
My journey with AI has been gradual and gradual to both. Even when I wrote about AI’s upcoming danger three years ago, I was collecting myself how to use technology. Even if someone sees it as an enemy, it pays to know your enemy. In my early tests three years ago, my goal was to use and use technology to create images to still shoot with a traditional camera. Then, I moved beyond that to try and extended the images that were realistic and potentially could do something that I would shoot with a motion picture camera. The next Frontier was the sound – in particular, trying to find a way to sync the picture dialogue, which was actually doing something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fhj4gr6- ko
In fact, my latest tests with AI video are largely operated by the release of two things: Google’s VO -3, which allows you to create AI videos with already attached sound and voice, and the new video generator of the midzorney. There are many other systems on the market that I have tried to jointly create AI videos for years. But I think the release of Veo-3, in particular, will go down as a watershed moment because we see the development of years of this wave from now on. Not because the system is perfect – I am only using free testing periods and my results are bumpy. But the reason for this I say that its release will be a watershed moment because it currently fills the opportunity of a major market in the wild, wild west. Right now, you are really happy to create an AI property, it is often you need to reach many different AI platforms, which are to perform a crowd of tasks. In other words, this AI is a labor-intensive process within the world with the main promise efficiency. The Veo-3 is capable of automatically linking the sound and the video will streamline the process for many casual users and bring more customers into folds.
Of course, as a human artist who needs to compete with the machine, this is terrible news. But from the perspective of an economics, this product profit makes the platform more attractive to an extended market and there is no doubt that there will be more imitations among Google’s contestants. As I said, Veo-3 still has some limitations. But, again, as they say, today the worst technology is going to happen anytime.
Case in case: I recently decided to do a remake. If you know me for more than five minutes, then you must have heard me the rail how much I hate the remake and sequel. But, in this case, this remake was designed for a more searching purpose. In 2023, when I was trying to move my AI images for the first time, I started making small teaser videos of what I was possible. With the development alone in the previous year, I decided as an experiment, as an experiment to remake one of those old films using modern AI tools and techniques.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gprvribjzqoo
The results were shocking. I do not mean to say that the result is the biggest AI film ever. And still AI is a heavy dose of strangeness that spreads this process, which is also unable to disguise my editing skills. But if someone had to look at the results from behind – the original 2023 version 2025 after the reboot – it is absolutely undisputed how much has changed in two years. Another year from now, project the reforms ahead, and you start getting the whole picture where things are going on.
So, what does it mean to us as artists? Should we all trade in our cameras for laptops? Is humanity a matter of past? Are the industries that we have dedicated our entire life dedicated to a slow death? Honestly, I don’t think so.
I know that you want AI that AI is just a craze and people will get up and reject it, but if I resonate those words, I will lie to you. The influence of AI on artists, which is the subject of this article, is only one minute part of the big picture. A Art gets a lot of headlines. Artists are always placed in front of praise or in front of cannon fodder. But the influence of AI is being felt beyond the world of art. It is changing science, business and healthcare. This war is also changing (not for the best). I was actually listening to the Godfather of AI, Jeffrey Hinton, speaking recently, and he created an excellent point about the current and possible uses of technology by the army of the world and how much money is already changing. If we know anything about the world, we know that rich want to be rich, and AI is a potential gold mine for industrial complexes around the world in many more deep -pocket industries than independent artists. Therefore, technology is going to move forward because there are people with financial interests inherent in seeing it growing.
At the same time, there are some very valid benefits: the ability to improve better data that can help cure diseases, the ability to spot the trendline that can help improve our society or secure things. Keep in mind that both of them trust humans using technology morally, and it is still a question that is yet to be answered, but there are real, tangible benefits that can come from technology. Thus, again, AI is not going anywhere.
So how do we learn to live with it? Well, when AI was released, my initial fear was that it was completely changing human artists and erasing 90% of our career overnight. After testing the last three years, learning to learn what is under the hood, and given the public’s response to it, I currently belong to the mentality that AI art will be present with human art rather than completely changing. There is no doubt, there will be a major economic impact on the market. While I do not think human artists will be abolished, the influx of another art will still squeeze the oversized market already. The overall size of the market will not increase. Rather, the arrival of AI will just shut down a large portion, making human artists compete rapidly on small pieces of pie.
Think of it in this way: At one point, the advertisements were all hand painted hoardings. Then, the photography came into photography and reduced the number of hand -painted signals, while the signals characterized by photography took part of that load. After all, you have a video hoarding. They took a part out of the market away from photography and painting. Both still existed; Pie’s slices bus became smaller. Now, you are going to introduce AI into the mixture. Painting, photography, and the film will not be away from the board, but they will probably reduce a small piece of pie to make it a piece to make a place for AI-borne materials. I think, as long as there are human consumers of art, there will be a market for human creators of art. But the economics of supply and demand will not doubt that the type of art is affected, the budget level at which it is made, and how many artists are capable of living in their chosen profession.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drkptqeflho
Now, whether the result is positive or negative is a completely different essay. But the fact is that co -existence is bare minimum which is likely to occur. Three years after that initial article I wrote, we have changed from the world “AI is coming”, “AI is here and a permanent part of life” the world. A crowd of questions still remains – both technical and moral. If AI has already been able to repeat reality, how far can it go in one and three years? What is the responsibility in ensuring the economic stability of artists (and support teams) to both AI companies and independent producers, which will be displaced by the flood of low expensive AI Prasad in the market? And how do we compensate the artists whose intellectual property is a literal basis for the large language model (LLM), but which has not yet been given legal protection? I really have an idea for that last part, but again, it is a subject for its own essay.
We live in a world where technological progress is really happening very fast to live with me. I have reservation. Not just because I am a born ludite, which is still the day of the day before the cell phone and the Internet, but because there are many moral concerns that still need to be addressed, including which are included, but not limited, does this progress actually serve humanity. But, if we are actually working with facts on the ground, what can I do or not, AI is to live here. It is above us to create a society where we can take advantage of its benefits, yet human artists offer railings to help and in future.
