Kultursmog Brings the Past to Life | The American Spectator

Artificial intelligence has been a subject of personal fascination for me, and I have written about it multiple times for these pages, most notably with “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI,” an homage to Dr. Strangelove’s famous subhead. 
The reference to Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic chef d’oeuvre is a reminder of the extent to which this now ubiquitous technology has permeated the seventh art.  As my colleague Scott McKay recently wrote:
So if and when AI begins punching through and taking over the film industry, it’s going to be more of an extension of CGI — an editing tool, a special effects generator, a way to green-screen the principal photography of a film and generate a digital set or background behind it, and so on.
That means the super-creative computer geek who spends hours making a vision into a movie with AI could very well crank out something that matches the quality of a Disney film before too long. If you’ve seen what Disney is making lately, that’s not really all that high of a bar.
AI is in many ways a double-edged sword for the film industry. On one hand, it is a powerful creative production tool. On the other hand, it is this power that incites a bizarre fusion of fantasy and fear. AI enables creative people to more efficiently cast their visions on the silver screen, but it also scares them more than a little. While the common parlance is that human intervention is essential to the creative process, some of the advanced thought bubbles from AI give us pause.
“I ingest covers, illustrations, and layouts as living artifacts … so viewers feel they’re walking through the publication’s visual memory.”
Consequently the role of artificial intelligence in filmmaking was a natural choice for my next interview with Rob Orlando, the director of Surviving the Kultursmog: R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr, and the Rise of The American Spectator.
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Cravotta: Rob, in watching the various clips of Surviving the Kultursmog: R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. and the Rise o…