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Neill Blomkamp's AI short 'Nightborne' is a tech demo, not a film

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from The Verge AI ·

Director Neill Blomkamp released a 13-minute AI-generated short film, Nightborne, through his startup Barley Studios. The piece uses AI to model voices and faces on human actors, based on Peter Watts' novel Echopraxia. Critics call it a shallow tech demo rather than a meaningful narrative work.

Meridian48 take
Blomkamp's project highlights how AI filmmaking remains a gimmick, lacking the artistic depth needed to replace traditional cinema.
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