Hollywood Welcomes Its Silicon Valley Overlords
Hollywood AI boosters claim that “democratized” movies based on personal choice await us, if only we can get rid of those pesky human beings.
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While most people I know devoted the usual portion of Thanksgiving dinner to coping with obnoxious relatives, I devoted a similar portion to trying to explain the looming threat of AI-generated film and television. One brother-in-law just couldn’t understand why I was so worried. He kept insisting that his favorite reality-TV show was “so real” […]