Christopher Nolan’s upcoming epic, The Odyssey, comes out on Friday, and it seems that this year’s biggest blockbuster (so far) has some wannabe competition.
A new AI-generated adaptation of the classic Homeric poem is hitting screens soon, prompting the questions: “What fresh AI slop hell is this?” and “Surely we’re better than this?”
Odysseus: The Fall is an AI stunt by content generator Ash Koosha, backed by London-headquartered Fountain O, self-proclaimed as “the leading AI movie studio.”
If the name of the “director” sounds familiar, it’s because Koosha also generated a docudrama titled Dreams Of Violets. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last month and raised questions regarding the ethics of AI, as the 75-minute film dramatizes the plight of Iranian civilians weeks before the US and Israel attacked the country. A vital human story told without any real humanity...
Jane Rosenthal, who cofounded Tribeca, defended the film’s inclusion on the festival line-up, stating that it was “a powerful example of how emerging technologies like AI can be used not simply as tools of innovation, but as vehicles for deeply human storytelling.”
