‘Everyone Is Doing It’: The Truth About AI in Hollywood
Belloni was generous enough to give me an hour of his time, and we managed to cover all the bases—from whether Hollywood types side-eyed Ben Affleck after...
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- Belloni was generous enough to give me an hour of his time, and we managed to cover all the bases—from whether Hollywood types side-eyed Ben Affleck after he sold an AI startup to Netflix for $587 million, to just how much control Big Tech companies now wield over the entertainment industry.
- It's just better, and people are using it.
- I know, I've talked to screenwriters who use it to suggest scenarios or to give a description of the inside of a building where they want a scenario to play out, or things that to me seem like part of the process.
- I mean, it's obviously going to be spectacular.
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Belloni was generous enough to give me an hour of his time, and we managed to cover all the bases—from whether Hollywood types side-eyed Ben Affleck after he sold an AI startup to Netflix for $587 million, to just how much control Big Tech companies now wield over the entertainment industry. It's just better, and people are using it. I know, I've talked to screenwriters who use it to suggest scenarios or to give a description of the inside of a building where they want a scenario to play out, or things that to me seem like part of the process. I mean, it's obviously going to be spectacular. But it just means it's going to be all white people. And the funny thing is, if he tries to use or to scrape the actual version of [Christopher Nolan’s] The Odyssey—I don't know if you saw the headlines, a full version of The Odyssey leaked on X last weekend, and before Universal could send a takedown, it was viewed like a million times … I actually had not seen that.