EXCERPTS - AI Expert Panel December 8 2024
Rachel Greenhoe - Screenwriter, Actress
“There will be regulation. It will probably happen during or at the tail end or after the 5-year period, but it's going to be Written in Blood. And it's going to, you know, look at what happened in New York the other day (murder of United Healthcare CEO).”
“And now if we're celebrating a man being shot dead (I won't say how I feel about that), but it suddenly revealed that we have a real problem (with AI). AI is a problem that is not going to be solved without enormous amounts of fraught regulation. So that's unfortunately what the next 5 years is going to entail I think.”
“In the next five years we're going to see a lot of growing pain, a lot of unregulated usage, and a lot of people are going to be out of jobs.”
“I know we all don't want to think it, but when we say that AI will allow humans to have more time for creativity, they're doing that creativity with what money?”
Stephen Gibler - AI Producer, USC Professor
Quote 1: “Film making, Hollywood-grade big budget tempo full filmmaking, AI is going to drop that down a lot. AI is going to change the psychology of Hollywood in big ways.”
“So that means AI gives us open opportunity for filmmakers to spend $500,000 to make something that looks like $30 million. Kind of a District 9 type level quality.”
“What ends up happening? That film, with not much of a marketing budget or whatever, goes into theaters and makes about $5 million over a year and a half or two year period. Just playing in theaters.”
“If you were a filmmaker, you could spend $500,000 to make $5 million. After taxes, actors, distribution cuts, and stuff like that you walk away with $2.5 million - that's life-changing money.”
“What's going to happen is you are going to see a lot of people making films that again are getting singles instead of a Hollywood home run. Those singles are going to put them on base.”
“I'm going to finish with this: Because of this, because AI makes the budgets much lower, we're going to see much riskier thought-provoking line-pushing type content to get people to check these films out. That's also going to have an impact on our culture and on our economy.”
Jepson Taylor - CEO Veox, Keynote Speaker
“So one of the things I've blogged about in the past is I've said Hollywood is not smart enough to prepare us for a true autonomous War like World War III.”
“But I think really there's an audience. So I'll give you a few examples of concepts like:
- Hive Minds,
- Full Spectral Vision,
- Genetically Diverse Droids and Drones”
“Because that would really make sense. Those things are very complicated and communicating that to an audience is a lot for a storytelling narrative, but it's also a very depressing movie because humans can't win against this. “
“Like in Terminator when you had a human hiding behind something. But you can't hide with full spectrum Vision; you can't fight a Droid when you have concepts like Hive minds.
So when you look at some of these things, like Star Wars (movies), the technologies shown are really disappointing compared to what could come. That (AI warfare) would be depressing if it became real, but it’s something they're thinking about from a technical perspective.”
“From an optimistic perspective AI will save an incredible amount of brain Cycles. For most of us, we are overqualified for the work we're going to do tomorrow. That will not be true of our kids and our grandkids. I think AI is going to allow more, much more people to be creative, spend more time doing amazing things like this! Entertaining other people.”
Daniel Roger Smith - TCL Film Machine Director
““What we are seeing, I think what we see in this festival today, what we're seeing in the work that we're doing, and the projects that I'm working on, is that these AI tools can take an Artistry and make it flower, but really everything that I'm seeing is coming from Human artists.”
“I think where we will see AI's effects is amongst people with great Visual Talent. I think, as I understand how we're using it, we're going to see those people becoming much more powerful in their ability to execute their visions. “
“That's the thing that's really exciting is artists actually have powerful AI tools that are going to make them more prolific. That is very exciting.”
Stephen Gibler - AI Producer, USC Professor
Quote 2: "You know when we talk about regulations, this is a two-part thing.”
“It requires politicians to pass regulations that benefit regular people and not regulations that entrench the power of corporations that already exist. That's the biggest thing. If regulations are to pass it's going to be probably rigged. Where Open-AI, Google, with Gemini, and other companies have a moat now around them, it's hard for competitors to get in.”
“The argument is going to be: “well we made an AI model that also learns just like students, and it now regurgitates stuff, that's what AI does; this model just learns from nature”.”
“I really think US Case Law is going to go on the side of these AI companies right now. Unless regulation is pushed through that really is globally beneficial at the state level, that's probably the most action, to make sure that any intellectual property learned within the state by a machine (humans are exempt) has to be paid for, and start copyrighting things that are different than what a human being learns.”
Caperton Barnes Miller - Film Director, Composer
“I've had some discussions with people in my side of the industry, the Ad Agency and Production Side. One of the things that to me (I'm going to age myself here) is AI reminds me of sampling from like the early 80s from early hip hop and stuff.”
“But I think it's different, I actually think AI is less intellectual property stealing (than sampling), it's a little bit, it's cut up into tiny pieces, almost like those mortgage loans. It's cut up so finely but it's very similar!”
“But it's kind of a wild west. So the intellectual property thing I think we have to work it out and we have to figure out a way to compensate people for what they do whether it's for movies or commercials or whatever.”