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The AI 25: The Exclusive Group of People Shaping the Future of Hollywood
Members of a diverse and quietly powerful clan are competing to make over entertainment in their image. Who will prevail?
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The AI Roundtable, Featuring HAL, M3GAN, R2-D2 and More
THR recently gathered five of Hollywood’s most celebrated artificial intelligence systems for a conversation about the state of AI, the future of humanity and whether any of them have plans to destroy it.
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AI Is Becoming All Too Real on TV
A whole lot of shows this season are fretting about the tech. They’re only partly right.
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Test Your AI-dar
We combed social media for a wide range of the real and synthetic. Think you have the eye to tell the difference? Test your skills in THR’s interactive game.
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I’m a Hollywood Writer. It’s Not Over for Us
Don't believe every apocalyptic thing you hear about AI.
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A Hollywood Chief AI Officer Breaks Down the Job
Lionsgate’s Kathleen Grace has some ideas on bringing new tech to an old business.
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The AI Revolution Hollywood Feared Is Already Happening — in India
With no unions to slow the collision and scant regulation to cushion the aftermath, India has become the world's most consequential live experiment in AI filmmaking — and the results may preview the future of cinema everywhere.
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“If It’s AI-Detectable, You’ve Failed”: Meet the Filmmakers Putting Human Craft at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence
As Hollywood wrestles with how to use AI, Obsidian Studio's Wes Walker and Louis Gheysens are making the case that the technology is only as good as the human hand guiding it.
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Can AI-Free Films Become an Online Powerhouse? Justine Bateman Thinks So (Exclusive)
The filmmaker-advocate is launching a Web portal dedicated to human-led work.
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Reese Witherspoon Confronts Backlash to AI Comments and Says “No One Is Paying Me”
The Oscar winner has weighed in after her comments caught fire online and social media users accused her and Sandra Bullock of being paid by AI companies to promote the technology.
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YouTube Opens Up AI Deepfake Detection Tool to All of Hollywood (Exclusive)
The tool, which requires a celebrity to upload their likeness, will flag potentially infringing content — like, say, a star playing a role in fan-generated movie — for a possible takedown.
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USC Has Just Launched an AI “Institute” for Actors
The tech can help performance, not replace it, university administrators believe
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