An AI creates a movie "loss" by David Cronenberg, Galaxy of Flesh, and fans threaten the author with death

Some catches of the movie from 1985, Galaxy of Fleshof David Cronenberg, came to light on Twitter a few days ago. Immediately the fans of the famous director harassed his creator, with death threats included. The problem is that this movie does not exist: has been created by a artificial intelligence.

Surely you have seen a movie David Cronenberga cult director author of remarkable works such as La Mosca, Crash, eXistenZ, or the recent Crimes of the Future (Critical)with Viggo Mortensen.

Cronenberg, 79, has been directing films since 1969. So advertising manager Keith Schofield came up with a fun idea: use a artificial intelligence To answer the question: What would a star wars movie shot by David Cronenberg in 1985?

Keith Schofield is not an amateur. He has shot music videos with world-renowned artists such as Beck, and commercials for Doritos, Bacardi, Apple Music, or Ikea, according to his account. buzzfeednews. He won a Golden Lion at the Cannes Film Festival for an ad about Diesel, and was nominated for an Emmy for another Volkswagen ad.

Creating a movie that doesn’t exist, using AI

To carry out the task, Keith Schofield used artificial intelligence called midjourney, which creates images from text. That is, you describe what you want, and it turns it into an image.

The AI ​​didn’t seem to know who it was David Cronenberg, so he had to describe his work. The director is specialized in sci-fi movies with a lot of gore. Then he asked her to apply it to a Star Wars movie. The key touch was to tell him that the images were screenshots from a VHS. Thus he has managed to give it the lighting and resolution of the 1985 movies.

The result, as you can see in this tweet, is spectacular: A Star Wars movie with characters full of guts and blood:

Keith Schofield expected questions about how he did it, and he hoped people would like it. But all he got is hatred.

Hanging from the tweet you can see comments like “Congratulations on stealing art to make a fake movie that looks nothing like the work of the man you feature.“, either “I don’t get juice or emotion out of these things, man. Most of the time it’s very depressing“, and also “Artificial intelligence is a tool, yes man, but so is a hydrogen bomb“.

Schofield confesses to BuzzFeed News that he has received three threats of death. Why this hate? Perhaps his mistake was, as can be seen in the tweet, that he presented the photos with a simple caption: Galaxy Flesh (1985), by David Cronenberg, giving the feeling that it was a real film by the famous director. If I had warned that had been created by an AI, would have been less criticized.

This is one of the problems with AI creation: it’s so good, people can’t tell it from reality. And so scares Y enrages to many people.

The use and abuse of generative artificial intelligence has brought to light another problem. Most of them have been trained with images, texts and code protected by copyright. And now they take advantage of it to make money.

A few days ago the AI ​​called Microsoft Copilot, which generates source code, was sued for copyright infringement. Today, the Stable Diffusion AIs and Midjourney itself used here, for the same reason.

As the generative artificial intelligence it becomes mainstream, it provokes reactions for and against. The galaxy of flesh movie of David Cronenbergcreated by a AIIt’s a good example.