Netflix – yes, Netflix – jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor

A new Netflix model promises to rewrite the way we make movies. Just imagine this. As the director of the multi-million dollar epic Car Crash III: Suddenest Impact, you've just finished filming the finale where your star, Cruz Control, drives straight into an onrushing semi. The collision is spectacular. Cruz's car – operated …

[Jou (Mxyzptlk)]

Think after...

Instead of thinking about story and action before it is all now post-postfix. Somehow taking the thinking out of the quotation, is my guess.

WhatAboutIsm is now possible ever after...

[An_Old_Dog]

"Vanishing Point"

They could have filmed this 1971 movie's ending, and then used this software (had it then existed) to avoid having to re-film the movie's beginning.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0067927/

[xyz]

Bet they're wishing for a version that...

removes Italian court judgements.

[Korev]

> Cruz Control, drives straight into an onrushing semi.

This Brit thought you were talking about something else...

Mine's the dirty one -->

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Nothing to see here!

The vision system on Teslas looks to be far more advanced - it doesn't need some meatsack giving it instructions - it can "unsee" objects in real-time. That semi was never there!

[that one in the corner]

Perfect for the American release versions

Another step in the path to the perfect American cinema experience, as promised in Gremlins 2: "screening tonight, Casablanca - in color and with a happy ending!"

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Perfect for the American release versions

Or more pessimistic:

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

[C R Mudgeon]

Re: Perfect for the American release versions

Whatever happened to Nikolai Yezhov? (first pair of photos)

And I once watched a work colleague Photoshop a cigarette out of some movie star's mouth because the photo was destined for the front page of a paper that had a policy against depicting smoking.

That was more prosaic than the Soviet cases, but more visceral because such Orwellian censorship was taking place right in front of me, on what was otherwise a perfectly ordinary day at work.

The possibilities for this new tool are endless(ly nefarious).

[Chet Mannly]

Re: Perfect for the American release versions

Given Netflix has put a kybosh on smoking in new shows, how long before they start this revisionist stuff.

Or more chillingly - how long before tools like this are used to refashion old movies, even Disney flicks, into PC acceptable versions?

[BartyFartsLast]

VOID

Of story or ideas no doubt

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe they could give NASA an evaluation copy so they can improve their largely dreadful Artemis imagery.

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Surely you mean the Apollo moon landings?

[Kurgan]

Great to make netflix originals at lower cost, and also to alter history at will.

Think about the possibilities.

- Make "Netflix originals" with no filming and no actors at all. All made by AI. Now just add AI created scripts, and you have infinite slop movies at low cost.

- Take older movies and alter them to adapt them to current ideas. Remove "offensive" parts, make them conform to current ideas and political correctness.

- Take older history documentaries and alter them to match current political trends, and the will of the current dicktat... ehm, president.

Both CEOs and governments are drooling about this.

[Pierre 1970]

Re: Great to make netflix originals at lower cost, and also to alter history at will.

Holly shit...so no more Lorettas? ... Always look at the bright side of dead...

[ravenviz]

Re: Great to make netflix originals at lower cost, and also to alter history at will.

Maybe just answer some prompts about what type of film you’d like to watch and it makes it on the fly.

Perhaps you can even save it off and use even more energy storing it in the cloud syndicate for profit.

Either that or just watch WatchMeForever!

[Tron]

Re: Great to make netflix originals at lower cost, and also to alter history at will.

You can see Chinese state TV removing tank man from the Tiananmen Square footage with a single click and the US missile bouncing off that school in Iran.

The camera never lies. You need AI for that.

Someone best tell the Andrew formerly known as Prince that it doesn't work for car crash interviews.

[Chet Mannly]

Re: Great to make netflix originals at lower cost, and also to alter history at will.

"Take older movies and alter them to adapt them to current ideas. Remove "offensive" parts, make them conform to current ideas and political correctness."

Yeah that was my first reaction. How long before that ridiculous "trigger warning" at the start of old movies becomes a "this movie has been altered to reflect modern values"?

And the inevitable social media campaigns from the perpetually offended to change tv shows and movies of course...

[Derezed]

Loving this innovation. Cinematography is so overrated. This slop will improve shareholder returns in the short term and make the service shit forever so I’m all in.

[Gavsky]

As a work tool, why not? Filming is a wasteful process - both in time & resources; that's why the budgets can be so huge but the end-product makes you wonder where that was spent. Large numbers of people spending endless hours to capture...something. All of that can end-up 'on the cutting room floor'.

As a creative tool, AI is so much slop, but as a work tool - it can make sense.

[Derezed]

Given that governments are promoting jobs like plumber and electrician you can guess which bits AI will pretend to replace…they’ll always be a job for the kid who runs to the shop to buy a latte…or any job that needs physical impact on the planet…hoisting a light…lugging something from A to B…brave new world!

[Ken G]

In a world run by AI, one electrician can make all the difference.

(deep voiceover for the trailer)

[Anonymous Coward]

Movies eh?

I couldn’t tell you the last time I went to a cinema and/or watched a movie.

Are they still a thing?

As for Netflix, who wants to pay to watch shite?

[ravenviz]

Re: Movies eh?

There is some good stuff out there, but at the end of the day it is all about money.

A bit like food companies tricking peoples' brains with manufactured reward responses just to sell more unhealthy crap.

[Nifty]

TV series 'The Capture' currently running on the BBC may have already taken the plot.

[JLV]

Imagine how much more easily Trotsky would have been to airbrush out when Stalin took over.

Similarly, a certain POTUS is up to his musical Titanic chairs antics for his cabinet again. Some verrry baaad men and women to take out. The worst!

[ecofeco]

Cool, so they re-invented...

So they re-invent the auto-assembly editor that's been around for 15-ish somewhat odd years.

Cool. /s