Lionsgate has become the first significant Hollywood studio to go all-in on AI. The company today announced a “first-of-its-kind” partnership with AI research company Runway to create and train an exclusive new AI model based on its portfolio of film and tv content.

Lionsgate’s exclusive model will be used to generate what it calls “cinematic video” which can then be further iterated using Runway’s technology. The goal is to save money – “millions and millions of dollars” according to Lionsgate studio vice chairman Michael Burns – by having filmmakers and creators use its AI model to replace artists in production tasks such as storyboarding.

In corporate jargon terminology, Burns said that AI will be used to “develop cutting-edge, capital-efficient content creation opportunities.” He added that “several of our filmmakers are already excited about its potential applications to their pre-production and post-production process.”

8 points

I have little interest in seeing AI vfx, but literally 0 in seeing AI stories. Fuck them

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22 points

wait, their boss is called M. Burns?!

do they also have a H. Simpson on the rolls?

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4 points

Don’t forget Smithers.

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30 points

Complete model collapse can’t come soon enough.

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Happy Cakeday! 🍰🎂

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2 points

Thanks! I was having so much fun I didn’t notice.

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Hopefully the big studios doing shit like this leads to a resurgence of true indie cinema. I won’t hold my breath for it, but I’ll hope.

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28 points

Reminds me of the magazine that fired all its copy editors when the first grammar checker came out. That was sometime in the early nineties and yes, it went predictably.

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