Filmmaker Chris Weitz Talks AFRAID [Video]

I understand the genesis of the concept for AFRAID was born from your concerns with your own children engaging with the online world?

Chris: I think when we’re talking about AI and we’re talking about large language models, we’re really talking about what they were trained on. I mean, they’re very impressive in terms of their ability to simulate human consciousness, but what they’re really doing is sort of regurgitating whatever they’ve been trained on or guessing at the next word. And so the question is, what are AI being trained on? And my notion was, well, it’s really a personification of the internet, the villain here. I was really quite …