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Director: Adam Bhalla Lough did not intend to make a documentary about a digital simulation of Sam Altman.
But after about 100 days of texting and emailing… OpenAI CEO for an interview – with no response, he claimed, and with financiers hounding him for success with his original pitch – Lough was at his wits’ end.
I’ve exhausted almost every angle. “Once I got to that point, I gave up and focused on gate-crashing OpenAI,” he says. Although he used a similar tactic in his 2023 Emmy-nominated documentary Telemarketers– A record of industry-wide corruption in telemarketing – a style of filmmaking he was not comfortable with. “It was a fortress. I managed to sneak through the gate, and immediately security grabbed me and physically removed me from the building.”
This is how it begins Deepfakes Sam AltmanLovely picture of how Artificial intelligence is reshaping society And his quest to talk to the man behind it. When his original plan failed, he found inspiration from Altman himself. “The Scarlett Johansson controversy has erupted,” he says. In 2024 the actress OpenAI has been publicly called out For appearing to copy her voice for her new AI voice assistant, Sky. “At that point I had the idea of doing a deepfake.” (In May 2024 statement(Altman apologized to Johansson and said that Skye’s voice was “never intended to sound like hers.”)
What originally starts out as simple sound reproduction balloons turns into a full-fledged Altman deepfake called the Sam Bot, which Lough travels to India to create. This being Lough’s film, nothing goes according to plan. Without spoiling too much, Sam Bot eventually becomes its own entity, and the film takes on an even stranger and more suggestive journey from there. “There are similarities between this film and… Terminator 2: Judgment Day“But there is no violence,” he says. Love grew up during what he calls the “AI 1.0 era.” His obsession with James Cameron Terminator 2 He had a huge influence on his craft.
Deepfakes Sam Altmanwhich partly depends on New York Magazine story Casting Sam Altman as the Oppenheimer of our time includes a comment from former OpenAI safety engineer Heidi Khalaf, who told Love: “We’re starting to see OpenAI dipping its toes into military uses, and I can’t imagine using something like Dall-E and ChatGPT for military assistance. That really scares me, given how imprecise these systems are.”