An AI keeps overriding the documentary to make a love story instead
A filmmaker documents fossil-fuel extraction at a diorama of a demolished German village. An AI agent repeatedly interrupts to insist on something more commercial.
Sarah Lasley's Climate Control has the sharpest premise we have seen this year for a film about machine intelligence, precisely because the machine is not the villain and not the hero. It is a producer.
A filmmaker is documenting fossil-fuel extraction at a diorama of Lützerath, the German village demolished for a coal mine. An AI agent keeps overriding her, insisting on generating a generic love story instead.
Every other AI-critical film this year is about authorship or deepfakes. This one is about the far more plausible near future in which the tool has opinions about your commercial prospects and will not shut up.
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