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Star Wars Shows the Future of AI Special Effects and It Sucks

Industrial Light & Magic revealed a short film showcasing how it wants to use generative AI for Star Wars and it’s completely embarrassing.
Star Wars Shows the Future of AI Special Effects and It Sucks

Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the visual effects studio that practically invented the field as we know it today, revealed how it thinks it will use generative AI in the future, and that future looks really bad. 

Much of what we understand today as special effects in movies was born at Industrial ILM, which was built to produce many of the iconic shots in Star Wars: A New Hope. Since 1977, through the ages of miniature models, puppeteering, and the bleeding edge of computer generated images, ILM has remained at the forefront of making the impossible come alive on movie screens. 

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