Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over
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Neill Blomkamp’s new 13-minute sci-fi short, ‘Nightborne,’ generated entirely with ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 text-to-video AI, is a test of generative AI’s capabilities. The film tells the story of an American pilot turned into a weaponized zombie for a governmental program amidst a US-Syria conflict. Despite its polished appearance, the short is described as a terrible watch and not the future of filmmaking.
- Neill Blomkamp’s new 13-minute sci-fi short, ‘Nightborne,’ was generated using ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 AI.
- The short is based on Peter Watts’ 2014 novel ‘Echopraxia’ and aims to demonstrate generative AI’s potential.
- Blomkamp intends to tackle a full feature film in this AI format in the future.
- ‘Nightborne’ tells the story of an American pilot who becomes a weaponized zombie after her helicopter is shot down during a US-Syria conflict.
- Despite being a test of advanced AI technology, the short is criticized for being a tedious and uninteresting watch.
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