AI忆术:迈向完整电影神话的AI电影本体论之问

AI Mnemonics:Towards a Generative AI Film Ontology for a Complete Cinematic Myth

在人工智能生成内容(AIGC)技术蓬勃发展的今天,关于生成式人工智能电影的艺术研究亟需回到“电影是什么”的巴赞电影本体论之问。其前提在于突破作者论悖论、艺术真实性和拟人化误区这三重研究阻碍,以寻找并确立人工智能(AI)技艺自体性。从电影媒介技术发展史的视角来看,电影艺术大致经历“胶片电影→数字电影→生成式人工智能电影(AI电影)”的媒介混杂性与美学特征变迁。根据电影眼(维尔托夫)、电影笔(曼诺维奇)的观点,AIGC时代的电影成像机制是由AI“电影脑”的自我幻觉与生成决定的,但其意向性目标并非巴赞意义上的现实,而是作为记忆渐近线的完美电影,因而生成式人工智能电影追求的是模仿人类记忆中电影经验而非创造新的电影语言或美学风格,有着记忆还原主义美学风格。基于柏格森的著名的记忆椎体模型,人工智能所生成的记忆还原主义影像美学只是AI“电影脑”的前意识循环,这种深度伪造美学还存在文化霸权问题,AI智能体的本质类似对外界刺激(输入)立即作出反应(生成)的草履虫般的单细胞原生生物,不仅没有达到如今在业界和学界所追捧的AI艺术革命,反而有可能造成艺术创造力的根本性丧失与创新性的自我束缚,更是对当下性的忽略与现实性的遗忘。这亟待我们保持对技术危险本质的追问立场,进而探索艺术救渡的可能性。

In the current era of rapid advancement in Artificial Intelligence Generated Content(AIGC) technology, the study of generative AI films urgently needs to revisit Bazin's ontological question of “What is cinema?” This requires overcoming three major research obstacles: the paradox of auteur theory, the issues of artistic authenticity, and the misconception of anthropomorphism, in order to seek and establish the self-identity of AI craftsmanship. From the perspective of the history of film media technology, film art has undergone a transition from “celluloid film→digital film→AI film”, marked by changes in media hybridity and aesthetic characteristics. According to the viewpoints of “kino-eye”(Vertov) and “kino-brush ”(Manovich), the imaging mechanism of generative AI films is determined by the self-delusion and generation of the AI “kino-brain, ” but its intentional goal is not the reality in the sense of Bazin, but the “perfect film” as an asymptote of human memory. Therefore, generative AI films aim to imitate the cinematic experiences stored in human memory rather than creating new film languages or aesthetic styles, possessing a “memory reductionism aesthetic style”. Based on Bergson's famous cone model of memory theory, the memory reductionism aesthetic crystalline image ontology characteristics of generative AI films lead to the pre-conscious cycle of the intelligent agent fantasist and the cultural hegemony issue of deep fake aesthetics. Although the AI “kino-brain” successfully achieves a memory reductionism aesthetic, it essentially resembles a paramecium-like unicellular organism that reacts immediately to external stimuli(inputs), thereby forgetting reality.