‘You can make really good stuff – fast’: new AI tools a gamechanger for film-makers

Instead of spending millions and taking years to complete, creative directors are producing high-grade work using the latest software, but critics voice copyright concernsA US stealth bomber flies across a darkening sky towards Iran. Meanwhile, in Tehran a solitary woman feeds stray cats amid rubble from recent Israeli airstrikes.To the uninitiated viewer, this could be a cinematic retelling of a geopolitical crisis that unfolded barely weeks ago – hastily shot on location, somewhere in the Middle East. Continue reading...

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