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It's a mistake to call this "Sora's" film, any more than a photograph is "Canon's" photo. Sora is just another tool here.



I think if the Canon camera was able to create all the photos in a black box, regardless of the photographer's skill and surroundings, we would have to give the camera more credit than the so-called photographer.


You think this short film was created "regardless of skill", i.e. by someone clicking a "generate" button?


No, I don't. But pretty close. They did very little work that could be called film making.

They have prompt engineering skill. If you can't do your creative job without AI, you can't do the job. The job you are doing is prompt engineering.


> They have prompt engineering skill. If you can't do your creative job without AI, you can't do the job. The job you are doing is prompt engineering.

In contrast to what you said above, below is how the team describes themselves:

> shy kids, a team of multi-faceted artists, began as three friends from toronto, canada and has now evolved into a small but versatile production company. they create most of their projects from scratch, proficient in various aspects such as writing, directing, producing, shooting, editing, animating, VFX, and composing music. they are known for their vibrant animation, dubbed “punk-rock pixar”. their work has garnered emmy nominations and been long-listed for the oscars. currently, shy kids is involved in producing series for major entertainment platforms like Disney, HBO, AMC, and Netflix.

Maybe you can submit a pull request to their website to change that text to "we are prompt engineers who click buttons on websites".


Lol. Perhaps I will...


Also writing, editing, sound engineering, voiceover work. I’m not saying it’s great art but there are a lot of filmmaking disciplines on display here.


I really dislike how much people have been anthropomorphizing AI tools, like these things are just pumping out content by themselves.


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