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Most conversations about AI and creativity end up in one of two places, utopia or panic.

But for AI artist and filmmaker, Mick Mahler, it's neither.

Now, AI can make almost anything I can imagine, and it's getting better and easier to use

every single day.

That's amazing, but also kind of terrifying, right?

I mean, what happens when everything becomes possible?

Will anyone be able to just

prompt a Hollywood blockbuster now? Or will we drown in an ocean of meaningless AI-generated content?

Mick's been pushing AI tools to their limits since before most people knew they existed.

From spiders playing jazz to Kafka-inspired beetle films.

He's one of the most inventive voices in AI filmmaking.

In this talk, he makes the case that the creators who stand out in this ocean of AI slop

are the ones who use it to serve their vision, not replace it,

because the stories worth telling are the ones only a human could imagine.

Filmmakers were never remembered for their tools.

They were remembered for their stories,

for their ability to move audiences, for their vision.

I think when everything becomes possible,

nothing matters more than your vision.

And as you might expect, this talk is quite visual,

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