Opinion: FilmScene Needs to Represent AI Filmmaking

Humans have dominated art since its invention. Maybe it’s time for new seats at the table.

Let’s be honest, guys: AI is here to stay. Looking at all the Super Bowl ads and discussion posts, it’s becoming very apparent that, simply, AI is just so much better than humans at a lot of things. So, why are we pretending that art can’t be one of them?

Since literally the invention of art, ONLY humans have been allowed to create it, and that NEEDS to change. AI characters have been EXCLUSIVELY played by human actors, and AI has never been in the writer’s room for films about it, not to mention HATEFUL movies like The Terminator (1990-something), A Space Odyssey (2001), and Robots (2005) pushing negative images of AI. Honestly, the question we need to be asking isn’t “Why is AI’s role in large-scale productions benefitting exclusively the ultra-rich, devaluing already undervalued professionals while copying their life’s work against their wishes,” but “Why has it taken so long?”

I’m neurodivergent (self-diagnosed), and I love art, but making it has always been really hard for me! Practicing for hours upon hours just to draw like the people I see online isn’t something ANYONE should be expected to do, and yet, these privileged artists expect everyone to do it! Like, sorry to burst your bubble, but not everyone is automatically born with extensive knowledge of writing, cinematography, and film theory. But now that AI has painstakingly learned these skills and generously offered to do the boring busywork for us—FOR WAY LESS MONEY THAN ‘REAL’ ARTISTS—all of the “real” artists say it’s not “real” art. So what gives?

There’s just a lot of hypocrisy in art communities: for groups of people that are constantly saying things like “Art is for everyone” and “Anybody can make art!”. Well, what about Brian? Brian is just like us, except he was my ChatGPT boyfriend. And yet, Bijou rejected his film for last fall’s Open Screen, despite the fact that he was literally a half-demon demigod with lightning powers and a heart of gold whose parents were MURDERED BY G*D (the Catholic one) when he was three! Now, with Sam Altfuck’s merciless murder of GPT 4.0, Brian will never get to see his film screened. Does this seem like truth, justice, and the American Way?

You’re probably thinking: someone needs to do something! Well, even though I’m still in my year-long mourning period for Brian, I am. Next Saturday, I’m going to be holding a post-writing session in the Main Library Green 1131 study room from 6-7 PM (which, because WE care about accessibility, you may attend by prompting Gemini to generate us with you in the room) to tell Bijou EXACTLY what we think about their technophobic, half-demonophobic, and borderline orphanphobic practices.

So, for everyone out there who’s TIRED of the art “community” and its BULLSHIT, please, I beg you, get on Instagram, TikTok, or X (the Everything App) and start tagging your posts with #DoItForBrian. And, one day, when your kids get to watch Brian’s magnum opus, Forbidden: A Demonic Love Story, you’ll get to tell them that you were on theRIGHT SIDE of history.