‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton

Marc Isaacs’ film Synthetic Sincerity may look like a documentary, but its fictional premise – a lab that scrapes movies to harvest human emotions – shines a hard light on just how far AI can go In Marc Isaacs’ latest film, the subversive documentary maker reveals that an AI research laboratory recently licensed his entire body of work. That’s a quarter-century of droll, deadpan studies of ordinary life in Britain – from the poetic Lift , about the comings and goings in a London tower block, and The Curious World of Frinton-on-Sea , set in the sleepy retirement town dubbed “God’s waiting room”

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