It was a plot twist that could only come from Tyler Perry: four years after announcing an $800m expansion of his 330-acre (328-hectare) film and TV studio, Perry put those plans on hold after being wowed by a new OpenAI tool that generates videos from text prompts.
“If I wanted to be in the snow in Colorado, it’s text,” he told the Hollywood Reporter in February. “If I wanted to write a scene on the moon, it’s text, and this AI can generate it like it’s nothing. If I wanted to have two people in the living room in the mountains, I don’t have to build a set in the mountains. I don’t have to put a set on my lot. I can sit in an office and do this with a computer, which is shocking to me.” Those who have long been frustrated by Perry hackery surely must be feeling unsettled, too.
