AI animated tale about a little girl telling a horror story to a bunch of fellow girl scouts...but there is a complication
Playing at Slamdance as part of the Episodes section. It's a creepy little tale that ends on a cliffhanger. I want to see more.
As good as the story is the film suffers with all of the problems that other wholly AI generated films seem to suffer from, namely the look of the characters and objects and such shift slightly from shot to shot. The also AI gets certain things wrong, not in the typical AI problem of people having extra fingers or limbs but images don't match the narration such as we are told a killer tries to open the passenger side door of a car, while the visuals show us the driver’s side.
While I can not in good faith say that I am 100% against the use of AI in creating films, I do enjoy some of the short You Tube fake trailers, and I understand that certain uses of AI are helpful in making films easier. However at the same time I am wary of the technology. I am wary of how it learns by data scrapping of existing materials, thus essentially stealing borrowing without credit the work of others.
While I am not inferring how AI was used in the creation of the film, I am mentioning it because the press material put that front and center. Because that is the PR selling point, and because the creator is supposed to be an AI expert, I was very aware of the fact while watching it. It was something that made me question if I should even review the film since so many artists are against it and I still haven't fully sorted out where I stand with things. But the film is here and I felt I should at least take a look.
And having taken a look I do feel obligatigated to say the episode it’s not bad,its quite good actually, and I enjoyed, but it has typical AI issues.