AI and Film 2024 • FILM 485 • PROFESSOR GREGORY ZINMAN

Author: Jett Carter

  • Dove’s Counter-AI as Advertisement

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    I recently came across this video which I found quite interesting, in the way that it uses AI in order to promote it’s product, but in a way that is quite atypical. Soap and beauty company Dove published this ad just over a week ago (and I was hoping nobody would post it). The ad…

  • The Matrix as a Trans Allegory

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    Through the number of times The Matrix has appeared in pop-culture, in various Emory courses, and even in politics, I always found it fascinating that the original story was allegorical to the “egg-cracking”, and subsequent transition, of transgender people. Though both sisters were at the time not out, much of the fuel of the film…

  • “I’ll be back”, but AI

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    I’d like to share this artifact of the internet that was uploaded just short of a year ago. I find it fascinating because well, 1, it’s relevant to our screening this week. Less so in the AI take-over man vs. machines sort of way, but in a more, the use of AI in Hollywood and…

  • Who is Tyrone? What is Clones? & other thoughts

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    They Cloned Tyrone (2023) is a whirlwind of a film following characters Fontaine, Yo-Yo, and Slick Charles. A few questions I wanted to pose here: First and foremost, who is Tyrone? Our unseen title character perhaps poses the biggest question in the viewing. Of course, we see Tyrone at the end of the film and…

  • YORS – Your New AI Girlfriend

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    For my project, I chose to look at the intersection of AI & gender, desire, love, sexualization, objectification, and nonconsent. Quite frankly, it made me kind of sick producing this video, but I wanted to make it as true to reality and accurate as possible. How do I know it’s accurate? I downloaded an AI…

  • Preparing for Ex Machina

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    This week we had 3 separate readings in preparation for our viewing of Alex Garland’s Ex Machina. Our first reading comes from James Bridle, chapter 6 of “The New Dark Age” titled Cognition. Bridle highlights numerous ways in which the thinking of AI systems is largely susceptible to errors, encoded biases, and the replication of…