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Five AI-produced short films will premiere at the TriBeCa Film Festival. The short film will use OpenAI’s Sora model, which transforms , marking the first time this type of technology has played a central role in the long-running film festival.
“TriBeCa is rooted in the fundamental belief that stories inspire change. Humans need stories to thrive and make sense of this amazing, yet broken, world,” said Jane Rosenthal, co-founder and CEO of TriBeCa Enterprises. Who better to document this amazing, yet broken world than a few lines of code owned by a company in the hands of CEO Sam Altman and other executives?
The unnamed filmmakers were all given access to the Sora model, which has yet to be made public, but must adhere to the terms of the agreement negotiated during the recent strike. OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said the feedback provided by these filmmakers will be used to “make Sora a better tool for all creators.”
Last time we covered Sora, it could only process 60 seconds of video from a single prompt. If that were still the case, these short films would make Quibi shows look like Ken Burns documentaries. The software also struggles with causality, which is, well, basically what stories are. But all of these limitations are from back in February, and the technology tends to evolve quickly. I also don’t think there are any rules to using prompts to create single scenes that filmmakers can then string together to make a story.
It won’t be long before we find out whether cold technology can accurately peer into the warm hearts of humans. The short films will be screened on June 15th, with conversations with various filmmakers taking place immediately following the screening.
This is a collaboration between Vox Media and AtlanticNews Corp, Dotdash Meredith, and even Reddit have signed deals with OpenAI to allow the company to train models on their content, while Meta and Google are exploring training models. Whether we like it or not, it looks like we’re heading into an “AI creates everything” future.