With todays cgi why do they need real guns?

Why do they need real actors? Or a real set? According to the latest ChatGPT news all of this can be perfectly simulated. 

On a more serious note, I have been wondering how this is going to affect the entertainment industry and practically everything else that involves images or videos. Apparently AI is now on the verge of being able to convincingly fake any audio and video content. Whether it is done maliciously or benignly, an awful lot of people are going to be out of work. This is going to have a really major economic impact, apart from any other consequences. Who needs movie studios, or newsrooms, or TV producers, or most of the content production industries when anyone can create anything with a couple of lines of text? 

Rikkitic:

 

I do know (I think) that blanks are only safe at a distance and are not intended for close range. Multiple people have been killed or injured this way. The blank wadding still comes out with a lot of force from the explosion of gunpowder.

 

They are not safe to be discharged towards people at all. Anyone that does it is negligent.

"let me point this explosion at you" is not how sensible people do things.

Rikkitic:

 

Why do they need real actors? Or a real set? According to the latest ChatGPT news all of this can be perfectly simulated. 

 

On a more serious note, I have been wondering how this is going to affect the entertainment industry and practically everything else that involves images or videos. Apparently AI is now on the verge of being able to convincingly fake any audio and video content. Whether it is done maliciously or benignly, an awful lot of people are going to be out of work. This is going to have a really major economic impact, apart from any other consequences. Who needs movie studios, or newsrooms, or TV producers, or most of the content production industries when anyone can create anything with a couple of lines of text?

So will we now see AI actors and productions win at all the EGOT ceremonies? Or will there HAVE to be a completely separate award system ?

richms:

 

Rikkitic:

 

I do know (I think) that blanks are only safe at a distance and are not intended for close range. Multiple people have been killed or injured this way. The blank wadding still comes out with a lot of force from the explosion of gunpowder.

 

 

They are not safe to be discharged towards people at all. Anyone that does it is negligent.

 

"let me point this explosion at you" is not how sensible people do things.

 

What are they used for then? I thought they were supposed to be 'safe' ways of creating pretend gunfights.

Rikkitic:

 

What are they used for then? I thought they were supposed to be 'safe' ways of creating pretend gunfights.

 

That, without the person at the other end of it.

As I said, I don't know much about guns and don't really want to. I am basing my opinions on what I have seen and read.  

In this case the gun was supposed to have dummies in it which have no charge.
Just hollow with a ball bearing so they rattle. 
Idea is you take the gun check its empty and rattle each bullet one by one as you load them.

For this close camera shot the bullets would be visible in 4K detail thus dummies.

The swiss cheese model of disasters.
You stack slices of swiss cheese, most days every hole is blocked at some point.
One day your multiple layers of safety have a hole that lines up.

Added to the mix of types of bullets you have on the set.
Slack procedure loading gun etc (if each bullet rattled there would be no live round).

There also seemed to be significant recreational use of drugs by the armorer, and I expect others. 

Drug testing alone may have led to a more serious attitude to the work, or a different armorer and crew being employed.

Guns are fun toys, Drugs make them funnier. 

Its a bit similar to the light plane accident reports, less haste, not skipping boring checks, and especially not mixing in drugs or alcohol. 

Gurezaemon:

40 or so years ago, I remember my Grandmother's reaction when I said the school camp was awesome.

Rikkitic:

I know Americans are cavalier about firearms since everyone has them, but I still have a hard time understanding this. Not only is it irresponsible, it is just unbelievably stupid. Surely common sense would suggest that prop firearms should be kept strictly separated from recreational ones. And isn't this film set in the old west? Were the prop guns period pieces?

frankv:

I must admit I don't understand it myself.

FineWine:

With todays cgi why do they need real guns?

FineWine: With todays cgi why do they need real guns?