Ori Peer
Filmmaker & 3D Animator
Montreal-based filmmaker and 3D animator who founded “This Film Was Made Without AI,” a collaborative project inviting artists to animate human-made disclaimers, after his own hand-crafted film was falsely accused of being AI-generated.
In his words
Generative AI scrapes people’s art, harms the environment and drains away the fun and meaning behind creation.
We must adapt to this new reality and ensure our audience that our work is human-made.
Biography
Ori Peer is a Montreal-based filmmaker, 3D animator, and artist. His personal, hand-built animation drew an unexpected hazard of the AI era: at a screening, someone tried to have his film pulled after accusing his 3D work of being AI-generated. Fortunately, he had recorded his process and could prove the film was made by hand — an experience that crystallized how suspicion now falls on human artists themselves.
“This Film Was Made Without AI”
In response, Peer launched a community art project inviting animators and illustrators to create their own short “This Film Was Made Without AI” disclaimers, freely available for any creator to append to their work. He framed the effort as both a reassurance to audiences and a rejection of AI’s creep into art — a way to reclaim authorship and, in his words, restore the fun and meaning that generative tools drain from the act of making.
The project resonated beyond Peer himself: he has described a 14-year-old UK filmmaker writing to say the collective effort inspired him to keep going. What began as one artist’s defense against a false accusation became a small movement for human-made disclosure, echoing the broader push by groups like The Animation Guild to keep authorship visible and valued.
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Sources & further reading
Canonical record: https://battlelines.ai/topic/ori-peer