Like all technological revolutions of its time, AI is feared by many.

As acheaper and potentially quicker alternative to employing humans, few trust studio executivesto use it altruistically.

That is the replacement of jobs within the film industry.

A metal brain with electrical pulses running through it, with the initials AI across it and the word Hollywood underneath it.

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Many would argueThe BrutalistandEmilia Perez’suse of AI did not threaten jobs but created them.

However, its very use feels akin to crossing the picket line.

Furthermore, AI actively uses other creatives work to generate the content of prompts.

Adrien Brody staring at the ground in ‘The Brutalist’

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Until Hollywood begins to disclose such uses, we will never know.

M3GAN standing in an elevator in M3GAN.

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