Just days after the whole Tilly Norwood AI ‘actor’ controversy, Italian producer Andrea Iervolino (“Ferrari,” “To the Bone”) has unveiled what he claims is the first film helmed by an AI director reports Deadline.
The producer has announced the feature “The Sweet Idleness,” a work that was overseen by FellinAI, an artificial intelligence director conceived to “celebrate the poetic and dreamlike language of great European cinema”.
FellinAI is part of the artificial intelligence arm of The Andrea Iervolino Company, with Iervolino himself acting as the ‘human-in-the-loop’ – a supervisor and producer who guides and monitors the technology.
Also involved in the film is Actor+, an in-house agency that works with real actors to create a digital likeness that can be used by FellinAI to create the work.
The story “imagines a future world in which only 1% of humanity still works, transforming labor into a symbolic ritual, while the rest of the population lives in the freedom and leisure provided by machines. The last workers become the ‘final masks of a humanity that resists the insolence of labor’.”
Iervolino says the work is not designed to “replace traditional cinema” to which he said he remains committed.
Instead, the aim is to “unite human sensitivity with the creative power of artificial intelligence in order to tell stories that no one has ever imagined before.”
Source: Deadline
