Dracula: where AI slop meets softcore porn
Text-to-video models were bound to shake up Hollywood, but no one thought AI would be used to create a movie like this.
A fresh take on the age-old fable has recently been reimagined by provocative director Radu Jude, who transforms the cult classic into a lusty cesspool of AI-fueled chaos.
Fictional filmmaker Adonis Tanta is tasked with creating a rendition of Dracula using AI.
Brandishing an iPad, he fires up the latest generative AI technology and gets to work creating a hyper-sexual cluster fuck of a movie.
Dracula’s opening scene assaults the senses with a wave of AI scenes depicting a lust-filled vampire engaging in sexual activities, according to Inverse.
Jude’s Dracula positions itself as a self-conscious arthouse movie that simultaneously lacks all self-awareness.
From its trailer, Dracula clumsily combines low-budget costumes and set design with AI renderings, creating an unnerving juxtaposition.
At a glance, the film’s overt sexuality is arguably oversaturated. However, this trope is familiar as it’s witnessed throughout Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the various renditions that have succeeded the novel.
This hypersexualization is a stark representation of Victorians’ repressed sexuality – but I digress.
The film came to life after Jude attempted to create a vampiric porn movie set in Auschwitz using OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
As seasoned ChatGPT users might have guessed, the technology wouldn’t allow Jude to create such a flick, so he took this as inspiration instead.
“I was pretending that I am an AI machine,” Jude told WIRED, as the fictional director standing in for Jude creates his movie through a series of text prompts.
While the movie is an obvious critique of the absurdity of AI images, and perhaps more importantly, AI slop, the provocateur was also fascinated by how the technology works.
“For me, it’s a new tool,” Jude told WIRED, “and like any new tool, you can use it or not use it.”
Does Radu Jude’s Dracula signal an end to cinema?
Since the release of OpenAI’s Sora last year, Hollywood has been battling against AI infiltrating the sacred space of modern cinema.
Actors have been fighting vehemently against Tilly Norwood, an AI bot looking to break into Hollywood, alongside AI giants like OpenAI, which once allowed users to create deepfake versions of famous celebrities like Scarlett Johansson without their consent.
Johansson actually warned the industry of a “1000-foot AI wave” that was set for Hollywood following a surge in non-consensual deepfake images.
However, Jude’s Dracula might not be the end of cinema. Instead, it has shown that the barrier to entry with anyone with an idea is much lower than it was originally.
Instead of nepotism and wealth, those who possess an idea (although not any idea in Jude’s case) can execute it, and it may become a hit.
While AI in cinema may be the end of the elitist pretense shrouded around film, it may also usher in a new era.
Perhaps it's time for a change.
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