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The Odyssey Director Christopher Nolan Says 'AI Slop' Is Being 'Utterly Rejected' By Younger Audiences
https://www.ign.com/articles/the-odyssey-director-christopher-nolan-says-ai-slop-is-being-utterly-rejected-by-younger-audiences-snip-
The filmmaker behind The Dark Knight trilogy and Oppenheimer opened up about the response to the controversial technology during an interview with The Telegraph. With just one week to go until his adaptation of the Greek epic comes to theaters, he spoke about how moviegoers have recently shown up for success stories like Backrooms and Obsession.
"This is why I never bought into the arguments that young audiences’ attention spans are too fried to enjoy a three-hour Greek epic," Nolan said, referencing his version of The Odyssey. "Those films are so mysterious and ruminative. I mean, parts of Backrooms are like David Lynch at his most obscure. And yet young people can’t get enough of them."
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"I’ve never seen a more rapid wholesale dismissal of a supposedly foundational jump in technology in my lifetime," he said. "So much energy has been expended on bringing in AI, but if you look at that generation’s reaction, they’re utterly rejecting it."
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"Their judgment of AI slop has been immediate and harsh," Nolan continued. "They see it for what it is very quickly – and it’s much easier for them to identify it, because it grew out of an online world they know really well. And while that doesn’t mean that every aspect of the technology is useless or meaningless, in film-making it’s hitting at exactly the wrong time. After years of driving towards heavily virtual environments, we’re seeing a renewed interest in more tactile, more real forms of storytelling."
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The filmmaker behind The Dark Knight trilogy and Oppenheimer opened up about the response to the controversial technology during an interview with The Telegraph. With just one week to go until his adaptation of the Greek epic comes to theaters, he spoke about how moviegoers have recently shown up for success stories like Backrooms and Obsession.
"This is why I never bought into the arguments that young audiences’ attention spans are too fried to enjoy a three-hour Greek epic," Nolan said, referencing his version of The Odyssey. "Those films are so mysterious and ruminative. I mean, parts of Backrooms are like David Lynch at his most obscure. And yet young people can’t get enough of them."
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"I’ve never seen a more rapid wholesale dismissal of a supposedly foundational jump in technology in my lifetime," he said. "So much energy has been expended on bringing in AI, but if you look at that generation’s reaction, they’re utterly rejecting it."
-snip-
"Their judgment of AI slop has been immediate and harsh," Nolan continued. "They see it for what it is very quickly – and it’s much easier for them to identify it, because it grew out of an online world they know really well. And while that doesn’t mean that every aspect of the technology is useless or meaningless, in film-making it’s hitting at exactly the wrong time. After years of driving towards heavily virtual environments, we’re seeing a renewed interest in more tactile, more real forms of storytelling."
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