5⭐Review from ‘David Reviews’ on ‘Meme, Myself and AI’

Wishing ourselves away ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

by Jason Stone

This savage indictment of humanity's inadvertent swerve towards making itself irrelevant is as bleak as it is brilliant. Writer/director Chris Boyle has thrown everything at this, and - in doing so - has even slyly incorporated a 'making of' (of sorts) into the film itself. He is like a magician who shows you how the trick is done as he wows you with it nonetheless.

Films like 'The Matrix' and 'Blade Runner' have speculated about a blurring of the lines between humans and human creations, and found ways to suggest that we will ultimately become beholden to creatures of our invention. In the meantime, in real life, while we've been worried about being surpassed by robots, we have allowed ourselves to become slaves to an assortment of algorithms.

And if, as Boyle warns here, we surrender to the ease with which thousands of years of creative endeavour can be aggregated by machines to generate art then we might as well resign ourselves to our own irrelevance. Pay heed.

Full article here: https://www.davidreviews.com/Work/2024/Short_Films_Meme_Myself_and_AI/