Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over

Neill Blomkamp has unveiled a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne, loosely based on Peter Watts' novel Echopraxia, through his new AI startup Barley Studios. The short features characters with voices and faces modeled after human actors, but was entirely created using ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 text-to-video generator. Blomkamp described Nightborne as a "test start" to demonstrate the capabilities of generative AI. He aims to use this technology to create a full feature film in the future, with Nightborne serving as a proof of concept for his vision.

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