\t\t\t\t\tThomas Paine in the AI-generated series On This Day\u2026 1776<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tAronofsky is executive producing with his longtime writing partners Ari Handel and Lucas Sussman, the latter of whom is overseeing a team of writers, with a host of editors, artists, directors and designers also working on the project. Their goal is \u201creframing the Revolution not as a foregone conclusion but as a fragile experiment shaped by those who fought for it,\u201d according to a statement from the companies. A trailer shows a number of historical figures attempting to rouse colonists as they slowly begin gaining confidence.<\/p>\n \n\tIn focusing on the Colonial period, Aronofsky is drawing on an era that has often come to to define entertainment mediums: 1776<\/em> and Hamilton<\/em> for the Broadway musical; John Adams<\/em> and Turn<\/em> for cable television. Now add AI viral-video content to that pile.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Time <\/em>connection to the DeepMind series adds another layer of intrigue, pairing America\u2019s ultimate 20th-century documentarians of history with its quintessential 21st-century fabricator of technology. Salesforce is also backing the project, and its subsidiary Slack was integral to the production, principals said.<\/p>\n \n\tIn a way the use of AI to reconstruct lavish historical scenes is a devilishly simple use case: rather than try to lean in to LLM\u2019s surrealist abstractions to tell science-fiction and other genre stories, Aronofsky is deploying it for a bread-and-butter example of traditional cinema: the historical drama, allowing it to take the place of expensive and often prohibitive physical production.<\/p>\n \n\tThe mother!<\/em> director\u2019s involvement in the Internet-based project ups the pedigree of online AI video creations, which until now has often involved embattled ads from major brands<\/a> and promising but raw genre stories from upstart\u00a0creators<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n