Sci-Fi Natasha Lyonne’s Uncanny Valley

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Natasha Lyonne Set to Make Feature Directorial Debut With AI Film — With Help From Jaron Lanier (Exclusive)​

Centered on a teenage girl who becomes unmoored by a hugely popular AR video game in a parallel present, the movie will blend traditional live-action and game elements. The latter will be created by Lanier as well as Lyonne and Marling. And the entire enterprise will draw on AI from Asteria partner Moonvalley via a model called “Marey,” which unlike systems from companies like Runway and OpenAI, is built only on data that has been copyright-cleared.

Cinephile Natasha Lyonne Defends AI Film ‘Uncanny Valley’: “Nothing I Love More Than Movies”

“Of course the movie’s going to be shot like a real movie. Now I’m really threatening to just shoot it on 35 [mm] or something to prove the point because [we are using] real-life human cinematographers and production designers and all that, of course,” explained Lyonne. “I’m a Mr. Moviefone. There’s nothing I love more than movies. Cinema is my very celluloid blood that runs through these veins. I love nothing more than filmmaking, the filmmaking community, the collaboration of it, the tactile fine art of it. I love every aspect of it — it’s so incredible. I understand my own church, in a way, even when the rest of the world doesn’t make sense. In no way would I ever want to do anything other than really create some guardrails or a new language.”

“I have this new studio that I founded, Asteria, with Bryn Mooser, and we found these amazing engineers at Moonvalley, and they agreed off this idea of why is every model dirty, like Runway and OpenAI? And why are they building it off of stolen data? Why do cell phones just have stolen data? It’s a problem,” Lyonne said. “What’s so incredible about Marey is that it’s the first underlying foundational model that you build on top of that is actually on copyrighted license, and you can go in with your concept artist and your storyboard artist and start building out a world.”

Couldn’t find a thread for this. Not sure what this entails but anything that could be seen as legitimising AI in filmmaking sounds like an iffy thing to do.