Neill Blomkamp releases 13-minute AI-generated sci-fi short using ByteDance tool

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Director Neill Blomkamp, known for District 9 and Gran Turismo, unveiled a 13-minute AI-generated sci-fi short called Nightborne on Monday. The film is loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia and was produced through Blomkamp's new AI-focused studio, Barley Studios. Every shot in the short was created using ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 text-to-video generator, with character voices and faces modeled on human actors. Blomkamp described the project as a test run to showcase generative AI's capabilities, and has expressed ambitions to produce a full-length feature using similar technology.

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