Netflix has officially acquired InterPositive, an AI filmmaking startup founded by Ben Affleck that builds purpose‑built tools for filmmakers, designed to enhance post‑production workflows like lighting, editing, and visual effects without replacing the creative process. Affleck will stay on as a senior advisor as the team joins Netflix. How do you feel about AI tools becoming part of the filmmaking process, helpful collaborators or a threat to traditional creativity?
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This was a pretty wild announcement. no one saw this coming.
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Yeah especially since he was so vocal about not working in the past Amanda Toney.
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Amanda Toney i couldn't agree more. I know I didn't see it coming. Prime example of "never let them know your next move." Vital Butinar I didn't know this. I wonder what inspired the change?
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it will be a scary time when AI runs editing, but I still believe a human touch is going to be needed to turn a quick edit using AI into a film worth watching. because Artificial is never going to beat a human touch.
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Timothy Miller there already are some tools that work as AI assistance, a good friend uses one to edit his podcasts. Honestly for a podcasts it's fine, but anything else that needs some nuance for holding a shot or cutting to something else, cutting a line because it just works better with just a reaction shot. Those AI can't and might not be able to do for a long time, same as with writing. It's a good assistant but its tendency is to go from A to B to C. The problem is that with dramatic storytelling you need A to F to C to B to Z. This hasn't change over the years, no matter how good some tools get.
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Cyrus Sales Wonder how the recent suspension of Seedance 2., and the pulling of Sora might make Netflix feel now... assuming of course that they are thinking of generative AI and not just machine learning. The latter has been part of most of our current tools for a while...