Comment by onraglanroad
3 days ago
Doesn't the director generally receive more credit than the producer?
How many films do you remember the producer above the director?
3 days ago
Doesn't the director generally receive more credit than the producer?
How many films do you remember the producer above the director?
What does it matter who receives more credit? The producer produces the film and the director directs it. If I pick my phone and record a video, I'm now the producer and director of the film and the sole creator of it.
If there were multiple people involved in the creation of a film I helped to create, I cannot factually say I created it. Just like if someone builds something using code generated by AI, they can't factually say they created it.
There's a bit more nuance to it though, I think, because traditionally there has been more of a firm line between humans and tools.
For example, most people would agree with this line you wrote: "If I pick my phone and record a video, I'm now the producer and director of the film and the sole creator of it." A pedant could say "woah hang on, that's ignoring the fact that actually the iPhone is the one recording the images that make up the film, how can the human get all the credit", yet nobody would actually make that argument when discussing who created the film.
Generative AI is pretty much the first time (maybe there are some niche contradictions to this claim?) we consider a tool to be contributing enough creativity to the process that we don't all agree "only one person was operating this tool, so that person is the sole creator" - but some people DO still hold that line, and do consider the human who wrote the prompt to be the creator.
And I don't think there's any objective technical metric we can use to say who's right, it comes down to our collective judgement deciding where the line is.