‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton (opens in new tab)

Marc Isaacs’ film Synthetic Sincerity may look like a documentary, but its fictional premise – a lab that scrapes movies to harvest human emotions – shines a hard light on just how far AI can goIn Marc Isaacs’ latest film, the subversive documentary maker reveals that an AI research laboratory recently licensed his entire body of work. That’s a quarter-century of droll, deadpan studies of ordinary life in Britain – from the poetic , set in the sleepy retirement town dubbed “God’s waiting room...