I always had a feeling Artificial Intelligence would take over the film industry one day, but I never thought it would start taking over Quinnipiac’s Film, Television and Media Arts program.
This past year, the course AR-272: AI and the Moving Image was offered at Quinnipiac, where students were tasked with making character sheets, scripts, storyboards, other preliminary production documents and finally a movie.
In theory, this class sounds like a dream for any film student, until I found out all assignments for the class would be made using AI.
Many of my friends who have gone through the film program, or are currently enrolled, have expressed their fears of AI slowly taking away creative jobs within the film industry in the near future. It is inevitable that AI will be integrated in some way into the film and television industry soon, but it should not be used in place of humans to create pieces of art that so many would give anything to be a part of.
The existence and offering of this class at Quinnipiac feels disrespectful to the film students, film faculty and the program itself, as so many passionate creatives are going through the program to learn how to create something mea...