Not an Americanized reboot of the Donnie Yen martial arts series of films, this film is instead the chronicle of generative AI’s first AI-generated android, a joint collaboration between Microsoft, Meta, and Skydance Pictures dubbed I.P. Man due to his primary purpose being to scour all of humanity’s cultural history and repurpose it into tasty commoditized content across platforms and media.
Act 1 deals with the skepticism surrounding artifical intelligence being used to synthesize and approximate humanity and what the ramifications might be, which the corporations can easily de-escalate with their capital and lobbyists.
Act 2 is the turn where Americans realize that AI-generated IP and content is simultaneously so familiar, vapid, and yet batshit that I.P. Man is an overnight success and an arms race begins at other tech giants and movie studios to try and develop their own versions, leading I.P. Man to assert his dominance by hacking into their code bases and tweaking the data so that once they are online they can only generate content about or featuring I.P. Man.
Act 3 you may think would be about a plucky group of skeptical humans against all odds trying to break in to Microsoft’s campus to take I.P. Man offline once and for all to prevent the singularity or Skynet or what have you, but does anyone look away from a screen long enough these days to carry through on such motivations? Especially with the bounty I.P. Man provides?
The first in a planned 100 picture zoccahedrology of films on the epic feats and accomplishments of I.P. Man!