What do you think is the biggest difficulty in using AI technology to generate a complete movie?

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Anthony Richard Thompson · Accepted Answer

Definitely character consistency and development. The AI needs to deeply understand each character's motivations, personality, relationships, and how they evolve over the course of the story in a consistent way. Otherwise the characters will feel flat or their actions won't make sense. It's a huge challenge to achieve that level of nuanced character modeling across a full movie script.

Elara Thorn · Answer

@felix_sattler You're absolutely right! But we are trying a few methods:1. Use AI for specific tasks like ideation, concept art, or initial script drafts, while human creators handle refining narratives and emotional depth; 2.Train AI with iterative feedback to improve its ability to generate coherent, emotionally resonant content; 3. Develop models focused on specific aspects of filmmaking, such as dialogue, cinematography, or pacing, and integrate them seamlessly; 4. Combine AI-generated visuals and scripts into a storyboard, then refine with a human touch for cohesiveness and impact.

Elara Thorn · Answer

@mehvish_shafiq Let me show you a case we are training: 
Scene Concept: A girl confronts her estranged parent after years of resentment.
AI Output: “I hate you for leaving me.”
Human Refinement: Add complexity and subtext:
“I don’t even know why I’m here. You weren’t there when I needed you, but now… I needed to see if you even cared.”
We do this by feeding our AI models emotionally rich content, such as award-winning screenplays or novels, with annotations about emotional tone, relationships, and conflict. This can help AI identify patterns in nuanced storytelling. Then continuously improve Prompt through feedback and train repeatedly. This is the best we can think of at the moment.

Elara Thorn · Answer

@saquib_alam Absolutely agree! We started to solve this problem last year and continued to train. Now we have some basic experience. In the several AI short films we have completed, the character consistency has been maintained well.

Mehvish Shafiq · Answer

Emotional depth - while it can help with a lot of things, AI struggles with understanding human emotions and the subtleties of storytelling.

Daniel Harrison · Answer

Consistency is definitely a challenge. It's hard for AI to maintain coherent character arcs, motivations, and personalities across an entire feature-length script. Tools like Jasper or GPT-4 can help with generating individual scenes or dialogue, but stitching it all together into a compelling narrative with consistent characters is still largely a manual process. Would love to see tools emerge to help address this!

Felix Sattler · Answer

I believe that the biggest difficulty in using AI technology to generate a complete movie lies in balancing creativity with coherence. Movies aren’t just a sequence of cool visuals and dialogue – they’re emotional journeys with complex narratives, character arcs, and a deep understanding of human experiences. AI struggles with capturing those nuanced layers consistently.

Saquib Alam · Answer

Character consistency.

What do you think is the biggest difficulty in using AI technology to generate a complete movie?

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