The Year AI Began To Shape Hollywood
From AI Oscar wins to Disney handing OpenAI its crown jewels film is racing from talent to tech
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How ‘Star Trek’ Writers Deal With an AI That Undermines Their Universe
As computing gobbles up the 21st century, how do we envisage the 23rd?
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The Book Thieves of AI
At first, I felt relief that Meta felt like one of my books was important enough to train its AI software. Then I got mad.
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These Aren’t the Books You’re Looking For
AI-boosted summer reading list rekindles debate
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Who Will Control U.S. Copyright Laws?
The people in SoCal want to protect their jobs. The people in NorCal want to create smarter AI. And the Trump Administration will decide who wins.
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‘The Brutalist’ Truth About AI
Controversy over Oscar nominee’s sound enhancement is just the beginning
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BFG Podcast #172
Writers in the age of AI, and writers at war over Israel
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Will AI Eat Hollywood?
Studio execs say “AI” and “capital efficient” in the same breath, things aren’t good for workers in the industry who like to, well, work
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Do AI Films Have A Future?
Festivals can screen them all they want, but there doesn’t appear to be an actual audience for the content
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Book Review: Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
Madhumita Murgia’s extraordinary book explores the potential for innovation, as well as dehumanization, in artificial intelligence
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Elvis Has Left the Deepfake
Tennessee protects the King from AI, but don’t get comfortable: surveys show that Gen-Z is increasingly comfortable with the technology
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‘The Maniac’
Benjamin Labatut’s novel about John von Neumann, “the smartest man alive” (in his time), reveals some unsettling and surprising truths about AI
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The WGA Strike is the Crappiest Hollywood Reboot Ever
This time, the issues are more complicated, and writers and studios are even further apart
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