The filmmakers have explained the way artificial intelligence-generated artwork was employed in the coming IFC Films movie “Late Night With the Devil,“ following criticism from several fans of horror films on X (previously Twitter). The Australian siblings Cameron and Colin Cairnes, who created and directed the movie, clarified the wide use of artificial intelligence artwork in the movie in a statement they gave to Variety. The explanation goes as follows:
We played with artificial intelligence for three still pictures that we additionally modified and eventually looked like extremely brief interruptions in the actual movie. We did this in collaboration with our outstanding visuals and technical development team, who all performed hard to bring the movie the 70s aesthetically pleasing that we had been looking for. We consider ourselves highly fortunate that we had an incredibly amazing crew, production group, and actors who are all so skilled and dedicated to making this movie come to life. We are eagerly waiting for everybody to go and see the film themselves this coming week.
In “Late Night With the Devil,” David Dastmalchian plays an interview program host who maintains the spotlight throughout a real-life Evil encounter. With vintage staging, outfits, and other aspects, the video is primarily shown as an unedited clip taken from a fictitious Halloween 1977 transmission.
The user-based gizmo’s March 19 Letterboxd evaluation, which stated that “I can not embrace the fantastic acts and smart finish due to the inclusion of artificial intelligence (AI),” served as a spark for disappointment about the incorporation of AI artwork. It led to further negative reviews on Letterboxd and a conversation on X, where audiences posted comments such as, “It smashed my heart to find out that artificial intelligence was employed in ‘Late Night With the Devil’ this evening.”
Since the two strikes in Hollywood last year, when it proved difficult to reach new agreements with the actors’ and writers’ unions, artificial intelligence (AI) in movies and television has become a particularly controversial topic. Even though the SAG deal needed permission and compensation regulations for employing artificial intelligence for duplicating actors’ resemblance, the updated WGA agreement that emerged as a consequence of the strikes involves writing that prohibits using AI-generated material to dilute an author’s acknowledgment or independent liberties.
”Late Night With the Devil,” following its premiere at the SXSW film festival last year, has received positive reviews. Assortment analyst Dennis Harvey wrote that the Cairnes effectively hit a delicate equilibrium among familiar but unexpected excitement (such as certain creature/gore effects), popular culture humor, and some hallucinating mass-media realism in action.
