00:00Hollywood stars and starlets have descended on the beaches of France for the Cannes Film Festival.
00:05Yes, that is how it's pronounced. It is one of the splashiest things and one of the splashiest
00:10releases this year. Stars, not a single name that you would recognize. The 95-minute flick
00:16called Hell Grind was made entirely by AI. Yes, there was a team of humans behind it,
00:22but just 15 of them. Have you ever seen the credits at the end of a regular movie? Yeah,
00:26just a touch more than 15 people behind one of those. Now, this film took two weeks to make with
00:31a budget of just half a million bucks. 80% of that money went to computing costs. The Star Wars
00:37blockbuster The Mandalorian and Grogu that hits theaters this weekend cost more than $166 million
00:43to make. But most of that money went to pay people like actors and the people that make the sets
00:49and
00:49the props and the costumes who probably have families and need to eat. Can you tell how I
00:53feel about this? A quick Google search told me that there were 54 cast members, 3,500 background
00:58extras, and about 500 crew members on that shoot, by the way. So what is Hell Grind? I'll tell you
01:05so
01:05you don't ever have to watch. The Post's film critic says it looks like a, quote, cheaper combination of
01:10Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's packed with violent fantasy action
01:16sequences and has a gods and monsters plot. Pass. While Hollywood cast and crew may be unnerved by the
01:22film, it's still not as simple as asking ChatGBT to just make you a 95-minute movie. The 15-person
01:28crew still had to know their stuff and make their AI prompts very specific, which I guess is something.
01:34The creator said each prompt averaged 3,000 words and produced 15 seconds of footage. I'm still not
01:41impressed. All added up, though, it took over 1.1 million words of prompts to make the film. Still
01:47not impressed. The prompts were almost twice as long as the novel War and Peace.
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