We made this project for the Collaborative Futures studio, which is about making a movie about AI, using AI. Our movie mainly focuses on the use of hiring people to work behind the scenes of 'automation', exploiting the workers involved and tricking the consumer into thinking AI is better than it actually is.

What is this project?

Our plot focuses on societal roles. We researched the way certain companies and apps use humans to fake automation and the Magdalene Laundries to use as inspiration.

As AI dominates industries, Jane's discovery of human exploitation behind seamless automation puts her in peril. Stripped of her job and facing ominous warnings, she pursues justice, risking all to expose corporate greed.

Jane learns about exploitation

Jane is in trouble and fired

Learns more and exposes exploitation

Act 1 Moodboard

Act 2 Moodboard

Act 3 Moodboard

Character Design Images

Movie poster

Sam Says:

• Midjourney is bad at making people look natural, as well as facial expressions, and makes characters almost always look directly at you, making a weird fourth-wall-breaking effect.
• Midjourney is really bad at making text, for example when making a movie poster, it would put text into it, usually very incorrect text. (eg. The poster showcased in this presentation said erroneously "breeakking the TIE COOPE.")
• LLMs are bad at making short things, such as loglines and titles, that have the desired tone, and also frequently messes up when given a certain number of words with which to make one of these things.

Orion:

• The results AI produces, both images and text, are very bland and generic.
• LLMs don't have a good grasp on realistic storytelling.
• LLMs tend to plagiarize when asked to create a story or title, and are bad at keeping track of numbers.

Reflections on using AI:

Thank You!