Hollywood is not new to invisible labor. From the blacklisted scriptwriters of the 1950s to today's collaborative filmmaking where every developer has a posse of scriptwriters, consultants, fixers, ghost writers, etc. that share in the making of the film.
Cinema is a collaborative art form. Even if Hollywood tries to sell the love of genius filmmakers. But now the story has a new collaborator. Not a ghost writer. Not a blacklisted screenwriter. But something more, AI.
AI is the perfect creative partner. It doesn't eat, take breaks, and, most importantly, it doesn't ask for creative credit sharing. AI is beyond efficient.
Movie writers, producers, and directors are already experiencing with the 'shift'. The jobs of filmmaking have turned from creation to refinement. Authorship is via algorithms. The process is clean, uncluttered, and idiot-proof. And to the moviegoer, transparent.
Call it technophobia, but we record history by who touched the work, who developed the process, who made the invention. Now, the creative line between human and machine is blurred.
The industry will insist that AI is just a short-cut. A helper. Another tool to assist in the creative process. But the truth is AI doesn't need to get credit, doesn't collect salary or fees, wants no residuals, and has no problem with or resistance to changes in what it produces.
So, in the end AI ensures complete anonymity. But what is lost is the thread of who did what and who is accountable.
By: Jim Lavorato
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