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Charles Pulliam-Moore
Ancestra makes the AI film hype feel pretty premature.

Director Eliza McNitt’s new short film produced by Darren Aronofsky’s Primordial Soup and Google DeepMind, uses generative AI to tell the story of a woman going through a difficult birth. The project’s meant to be a testament to the potential of AI video generation models, but...well, you can see the results for yourself. We’ll have more to say on this soon.

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