You are not a gadget, but you may be immersed in AI-generated movies.

In one of the more unusual creative collaborations that have been underway for some time Hollywood Reporter It has been learned that long-time tech innovator and sometimes Jaron Lanier has teamed up with Natasha Lyonne and Brit Marling to create a new feature film that will be set up in the immersive video game space and make the most of AI.

The Incredible ValliAs the project calls it, it is backed by Asteria, a new AI studio founded by Bryn Mooser, a filmmaker and entrepreneur of Lyonne and Los Angeles. Lyonne will direct from the script she wrote with Marling; both will appear.

The film focuses on a teenage girl who is attracted by a popular AR video game in parallel gifts that will blend traditional live action and game elements. The latter will be created by Lanier as well as Lyonne and Marling. The entire enterprise will borrow AI from Asteria partner Moonvalley through a model called "Marey" that is different from systems from companies like Runway and OpenAI, built only on data that has been copyrighted.

Asteria's representative said the film "will blend traditional storytelling technology with cutting-edge AI to create a radical new cinematic experience."

Whether the movie is targeted at drama, streaming or a more cutting-edge platform remains to be seen.

Although AI has been floated recently to fill the post-production gap and speed up the workflow, it has rarely been integrated into the narrative of the film itself, and certainly not combined with the kind of top names involved here.

Since co-founded Asteria, Lyonne has been tinkering with large language models as she tries to become one of the veteran actors in the new form of storytelling. The film marks her feature directorial debut; she also directs the upcoming plot Columbus style Peacock hits Poker facereturn next week's second season.

Through this project, Lyonne further entered the narrative experiment, starting with the time loop Russian dollwhile Marling continues to shape the theme OA display. (Her companion on Netflix cult hit Zal Batmanglij is also the producer here.) She calls this and other sci-fi projects "a tool for resistance."

More than just another independent project, Incredible valley Critical early testing of whether generative AI, which some critics argue, automates and dilutes content, or whether it can expand creative possibilities.

Mooser, who has an Asteria project that relies on a license-based model on Asteria, believes that the project will work because it comes from storytellers rather than programmers. “When an artist leads technology rather than the other way around, pioneering and unexpected advancements are possible,” said Mooser, who was produced with Justin Lacob, an executive of his documentary company.

Lyonne noted in a statement that her and Marling’s work on the project – Chatgpt cannot come up with – just like “Dianne Wiest and Diane Keaton (at their best) decided to go through a journey matrix For sports, just find yourself holding the architectural blueprint. "She also called Lanier "a true philosophical individual hero, a wonderful individual hero, and a strange, strange character. ”

After leaving Atari to find a key VR startup in the 1980s, Lanier has become one of the leading thinkers in Silicon Valley, even though he often expressed his skepticism about Big Tech.

“I’m disappointed with how the Internet has evolved over the past decade,” he told him. New Yorker In 2011. “I always felt that human-centered computer science approaches would lead to more interesting, quirky, wilder, heroic adventures than the machine-Super University approach, and information is the highest goal.” (Lanier suggests Steven Spielberg Ethnic Minority Reportif these topics sound familiar. )

His 2010 Declaration You're not a gadget Faced with the growing social media power at the time, to take back personal data (not mind humans). Although he says technology can be a powerful tool for artistic, he also recently pointed out that unlike VR, AI can limit awareness.

Lanier and Lyonne, who had appeared together on the Tribeca Film Festival group before, made the difference and said: "In virtual reality, you can make very, very strange experiences, you can become different animals... You can divide the body into pieces and feel permeated... You can change your time... You can flow your body with other people."

But he believes that even with AI, the project can be technology- and human-centered. In a statement thr, "There is a story about technology here, but it's actually about people, and the unpredictable connection clues that have taken us across generations, technology and different weirdness," Lanier said.