Hold onto your popcorn 🍿, folks! Meta is teaming up with Blumhouse—the masterminds behind horror hits like \"Paranormal Activity\" and \"Insidious\"—to test drive their latest AI video tool, Movie Gen. 🎥🤖
Announced earlier this month, Movie Gen is Meta's ambitious step into the future of filmmaking. While it's still cooking and won't hit our screens until next year, the tech giant is already spicing things up by collaborating with some of Hollywood's spookiest storytellers. 👻
Imagine having an AI that's \"more like a collaborator than it is like a tool,\" as Oscar-winner Casey Affleck puts it. 🎭 Affleck got early access to Movie Gen and seems pretty stoked about its potential to revolutionize the creative process.
But wait, didn't AI cause some drama during last year's writers' strike in Hollywood? 😱 Writers and actors were worried about being replaced by algorithms. Jason Blum, the founder of Blumhouse, isn't sweating it though. \"These are going to be powerful tools for directors,\" he says. \"It's important to engage the creative industry in their development.\" 🎬✨
Filmmaker Aneesh Chaganty joined the party too, creating a slick three-minute video that flips the script on AI fears. He revisited old clips from his youth, using Movie Gen to add aliens 👽, swap locations, and even turn his family home into a bank vault 💰. \"I hate AI, but with a tool like this… I dunno… maybe I would've just dreamt a little bigger,\" he muses.
Meta is hyped about Movie Gen's ability to create videos with sound from short prompts or photos—a major breakthrough! 🚀 The catch? It's currently limited to 16-second clips. But hey, that's enough time for a spine-tingling teaser, right?
As tech and creativity continue to mix, we're eager to see what nightmares—or dreams—this collaboration between Meta and Blumhouse will unleash. Stay tuned, adventure seekers! 🌟
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