The Tribeca Film Festival will premiere five short films made by ai, . The shorts will use OpenAI's Sora model, which transforms . This is the first time this type of technology will take center stage at the long-running film festival.
“Tribeca is built on the fundamental belief that storytelling inspires change. “We humans need stories to thrive and make sense of our wonderful, broken world,” said Tribeca Enterprises co-founder and CEO Jane Rosenthal. Who better to chronicle our wonderful, broken world than a few lines of code owned by a company that empowers CEO Sam Altman and other board members?
All of the anonymous filmmakers had access to the Sora model, which is not yet available to the public, although they must follow the terms of the agreements negotiated during the recent strikes. OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap says the feedback provided by these filmmakers will be used to “make Sora a better tool for all creatives.”
The last time we covered Sora, he could only handle 60 seconds of video from a single message. If that remains the case, these short films will make Quibi shows look like a Ken Burns documentary. Software also wrestles with cause and effect and, well, that's basically a story. However, all of these limitations come from the old February days and this technology tends to advance rapidly. Also, I suppose there is no rule against using prompts to create individual scenes, which the filmmaker can string together to create a story.
We don't have that much time to find out if cold technology can accurately look into our warm human hearts. The shorts will be screened on June 15 and there will be a conversation with the various filmmakers immediately after the debut.
This follows a series of agreements between . media, The Atlantic, News Corp, Dotdash Meredith, and even Reddit have reached deals with OpenAI to allow the company to train its models on their content. Meanwhile, Meta and Google are looking to train their models. It looks like we're going to have this future where ai creates everything whether we want it to or not.
