“But it will also cause more friction.
No one is quite sure how the nature of storytelling will change, but it is sure to. David Thomson, a film historian, compares generative ai to the advent of sound. When movies were no longer silent, it altered the way plot points were rendered and how deeply viewers could connect with characters. Cristóbal Valenzuela, who runs a company called Runwayml, which offers ai-enhanced software tools to creative types, says ai is more like a “new kind of camera”, offering a fresh “opportunity to reimagine what stories are like”. Both are right. -ALEXANDRA SUICH BASS”