Writing has been on the wall for a while. Unless you haven’t seen a movie in the past decade or more, you’ll know the importance of VFX to the creation of TV shows and movies. Those VFXs are here Take a lot of time at a high cost Production. With Generative AI videos becoming so great that most people have been fooled by it at least once, it’s only a matter of time before large studios start to incorporate it into their workflow.
In fact, Netflix only brags about doing this a few months after the show came out, and no one found it using AI. Yes, it seems that AI art is finally starting to be no different from human-made art, but that doesn’t mean the problem is layoffs.
exist Thursday’s revenue callNetflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos discusses how the team behind the streamer adaptation of Argentina comic books Eternaut Use AI to speed up its workflow. Sarandos said, discussing the buildings depicting the collapsed buildings in the exhibition, “The VFX sequence is completed 10 times faster than traditional VFX tools and workflows, and details that it is actually the final AI final clip that appears on the screen in the Netflix Original series or movies.” I had the idea after seeing it myself (I think).
Eternaut Just the beginning
Sarandos’ statement has gained two things. First, the generated AI finally comes into your Netflix show, given that Sarandos says EternautThe creators are “excited by the results,” and there may be more. Second, by using the use of the word “final”, it’s almost certain that it’s been in your show for a while. It’s time to figure out what you think about it.
To be fair, Netflix is not the first streaming media to use AI. Disney+ Secret invasion The series uses very obvious AI art to gain credit, face Retreat immediately to this end. but Eternaut It has been playing since April, which shows that no one has really caught it until now.
I would allow comparisons of Marvel’s work to classic comics from Argentine magazines (original work that debuted in the 1950s). Fewer eyes may just look at the AI effect, and Netflix actually uses the smaller production of the show as one of the reasons to use AI, Sarandos said: “For the show in that budget, its cost (no AI required) is not feasible.”
Perhaps the most worrying thing is that even though I watched the order of AI generation myself, I’m not sure I’ll notice that it was made by AI unless I already know to look for it.
I think I’m in Eternaut
I will admit that I didn’t watch the entire show in real time, but I did scrub these episodes multiple times and I believe the most likely culprit was a few shots of the building that started around 15:25 in Episode 4. I was able to be sure these possible AI videos weren’t exactly thoughtful, but I could be wrong as well.
Tell me? Well, obviously, these are the only shots I can find, very similar to what Sarandos described. Again, if I hadn’t been told to look for AI, I’m not sure it would jump on me. It’s nothing special, but maybe it’s the trick – same as Trippy AI’s credibility Secret invasionthe AI here looks a lot like handmade low budget (I kindly say) aliens, they appeared a few minutes ago.
But if you know you’re looking for AI, here are some other giveaways. In these scenes, there are no human characters (which means no weird hands), the cut is fast, or the theme is far away, and exceptional. Essentially, they look like general contextless clips that have little connective tissue sutured into the seizure.
What do you think so far?
But they don’t look like hallucinations either. A typical advice for LifeHacker is the typical advice for discovering AI lenses – gradually reducing and looking for weird physical or weird body movements – not really applicable here. My colleague Stephen Johnson mentioned that you can cross-check social media to see if the use of AI is reported in suspicious videos – this may work for online viral videos, but if a production company is silent about using AI and keeping the effect of AI, it may be hard to spot.
How to adapt to AI on TV shows
All of this uncertainty suggests a broader question of how viewers can adapt to AI in TV. Sarandos defendant Using AI in Real Crime Documentary What did Jennifer do. company deny These claims, but these arguments even make sense, which means that the audience is starting to be uncertain whether they can trust their eyes – especially a big problem for genres like real crime, which will surely make AI skeptics like me start to feel paranoid when watching.
But even at the best of this, even if using weird AI in fictional work can save some time, I’m still a little worried. On the one hand, Sarandos believes that Netflix “has a firm belief that AI represents an incredible opportunity to help creators make movies and series, not just cheap.” Some might say, what are the dangers if you can’t find the difference between AI and handmade products? Especially in such low-budget performances, it might not have achieved these effects otherwise.
On the other hand, there are still reasons to keep viewers on alert besides the reduction of VFX artists or the ethical issues of using copyrighted materials to train AI. I’ve proposed some awkward cuts before, but it’s also questionable whether these effects need to be omitted without hurting the story.
EternautThe comic art is full of thoughtful, detailed lines, and all purposes are accomplished. When you read it, you know that’s what the artist wants you to see, and each line represents the choice. With AI clipping, the details may only be there, because that’s what the model thinks of a scenario like this.
As a detail-oriented audience, I was reluctant to spend time trying to figure out why the director constructed the shots the way they did, only after a few months discovering that a computer was just spitting out based on other models of similar scenarios. While it may start with a smaller show, considering how successful Netflix is (the show has a Rotten tomatoes rating is 96%), I hope to see it elsewhere soon. No matter what excuses the streamer offers, this is not something you can ignore.
