“We’re expanding the cinematic toolbox”: AI fault lines shown in Cannes

UUnder a white tent on Cannes’ Croisette beach, with the glittering Mediterranean in the background and superyachts drifting across the horizon, director Darren Aronofsky spoke to an audience of executives and technology evangelists gathered for an AI for Talent summit.

“There is so much resistance to AI,” said Aronofsky, who has faced criticism at his new studio Primordial Soup for his enthusiasm for generative AI projects at a time when artificial intelligence has become one of the most contentious fault lines in the film industry.

“AI is a terrible word because it’s a buzzword for so many different things,” the director of “Requiem for a Dream,” “The Wrestler” and “Black Swan” continued. “When we talk about the weather or how to spend three days in Cannes with Chat GPT, we engage in a completely different way with the AI ​​we use to generate…