The Tribeca Film Festival will debut five short films made by artificial intelligence. . The shorts will use OpenAI’s transformative Sora model . It is the first time that this type of technology will take center stage at the long-running film festival.
“Tribeca is driven by the fundamental belief that storytelling inspires change. People need stories to thrive and make sense of our beautiful and fragmented world,” said Jane Rosenthal, co-founder and CEO of Tribeca Enterprises. Who better to chronicle our beautiful and broken world than some lines of code owned by a company Allowing CEO Sam Altman and other board members ?
The unnamed filmmakers have all been granted access to the Sora model, which is not yet open to the public, although they must abide by the terms of agreements negotiated during the recent strikes. . Brad Lightcap, CEO of OpenAI, says the feedback from these filmmakers will be used to make Sora a better tool for all creatives.
The last time we covered Sora, he was only able to manage a 60-second video from one request. If so, these short films will make the Quibi shows look like a Ken Burns documentary. The program also wrestles with cause and effect, and that’s really the story. However, all these limitations come from the ancient days of February, and this technology tends to move quickly. Also, I assume there is no rule against using prompts to create single scenes that the director can combine to create a story.
We don’t have much time to learn that cold technology can look precisely into our warm human hearts. The short films will be screened on June 15, and the debut will be immediately followed by a conversation with the various filmmakers.
This happens after a series of agreements between . Vox Media, Atlantic, News Corp, Dotdash Meredith and even Reddit have signed deals with OpenAI to help the company train its models on their content. Meanwhile, Meta and Google are searching train models. It looks like we’re going to get this “AI creates everything” future whether we like it or not.
