I use AI - have been since about late '22 and it’s a learning curve to say the least. I’ve experimented with title images for each film in the EON series, the results of my ‘experiments’ suggesting AI will be a large part of the title sequences in future, if not the films themselves. Any thoughts, suggestions welcomed!
I prefer human beings and their creativity, not a mix of previous ideas mangled together by an algorithm.
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So, in other words, none of the Bond films since 1995? 
Sorry, couldn’t resist. 
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All of MrKiddWint’s posts have been written by AI since '22. The funny thing is he actually hates Diamonds Are Forever but the damn thing’s gone haywire and none of us can get ahold of him.
The future of Bond fandom…
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Perhaps for an anniversary, I’d like to see a couple of Amazon Prime half-hour films, one with an AI Sean and one with an AI Roger.
Star Wars has brought back Luke, after all.
I´d cancel my Amazon subscription if they did that.
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AI has some potentially interesting uses. Resurrection of the dead should not be one of them.
Star Wars may have brought Luke back, but Mark Hamil still filmed those scenes. Creating an AI performance of a deceased actor without their express consent just feels wrong.
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I believe generative AI will eventually supersede human skills and imagination in the majority of creative endeavours. Currently, I think we’re still at the stage where there’s an enormous amount of denial about this.
We can scoff about AI’s mistakes and limitations as the technology exists today. But, like it or not, there’s only one way that this is heading. The AI of 2035, 2045, 2055, will be very different to the AI of today.
Does AI have a future in the Bond films? In the short term as a creative tool, yes. We know that it does from the tools we currently use. But longer term, I suspect the creative landscape is going to be opened up and transformed beyond anything most of us can currently imagine.
Are Sean and Roger coming back at some point? Yes. If not from a big studio, then from someone’s back bedroom. We’ll get a second Lazenby, a third Dalton, a fifth Brosnan. And here’s the mindblowing thing. In time, these will be absolutely incredible films.
Somehow this prospect manages to be scary, exciting and depressing all at once.
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Depressing. Especially since many human beings are happy to let machines do their work and make them expendable.
Are we supposed to just exist in order to watch what AI can do? And let’s not forget: AI uses existing ideas to mix. It cannot have a single original thought.
And even if it can develop that some day, are we happy to just surrender everything?
AI can help us, sure, in the health sector, detecting cancer more accurately than the human eye, for example. And that’s what we should use AI for.
But to take our jobs and our creativity - no, we should never allow that. And still, since a few can make tons of money with that, it will happen.
Only a new Bond film with an AI Connery can never be a good film. Because it would never be the real Connery.
By the way, did people forget that „Terminator“ was not just an action movie?
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