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Requiem for a film-maker: Darren Aronofsky’s AI revolutionary war series is a horror

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The once-lauded director of Black Swan and The Wrestler has drowned himself in AI slop with an embarrassing new online seriesIf you happen to find yourself stumbling through Time magazine’s YouTube account, perhaps because you are a time traveller from the 1970s who doesn’t fully understand how the present works yet – then you will […]

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‘This train isn’t going to stop’: shocking Sundance film shows promises and perils of AI

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The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, co-directed by Daniel Roher, delves into the world of AI through the lens of personal anxietyAre we barreling toward AI catastrophe? Is AI an existential threat, or an epochal opportunity? Those are the questions top of mind for a new documentary at Sundance, which features leading

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Scarlett Johansson and Cate Blanchett back campaign accusing AI firms of theft

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Hundreds of writers, musicians and performers urge licensing deals instead of scraping creative workScarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett, REM and Jodi Picoult are among hundreds of Hollywood stars, musicians and authors backing a new campaign accusing AI companies of “theft” of their work.The “Stealing Isn’t Innovation” drive launched on Thursday with the support of approximately 800

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Mercy review – Chris Pratt takes on AI judge Rebecca Ferguson in ingenious sci-fi thriller

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It is the year 2029 and an LA cop finds himself accused of murdering his wife. He has 90 minutes to clear his name before robo-justice sends him downIrish writer Marco van Belle delivers an entertaining script for this real time futurist thriller-satire set in LA in 2029, in a world (as they say) where

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Cosmic Princess Kaguya! review – trippy anime adapted from Japanese folk dives into virtual reality popworld

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Emojis explode all over the screen in this hyperactive adaptation of a Japanese folk tale about a princess who has run away from the moonNever has a film been more deserving of an exclamation mark at the end of the title than this animation from Japan. Cosmic Princess Kaguya! is an adaptation of a Japanese

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Matthew McConaughey trademarks ‘All right, all right, all right’ catchphrase in bid to beat AI fakes

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The Oscar winner intends to combat misuse of the famous line from Dazed and Confused by creating ‘a clear perimeter around ownership’ Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey has trademarked his image and voice – including his famous catchphrase: “All right, all right, all right” from the movie Dazed and Confused in an attempt to forestall unauthorised

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‘Move fast, break stuff’: how tech bros became Hollywood’s go-to baddie in 2025

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From Stanley Tucci’s imperious tech titan to Lex Luthor’s distractingly hot CEO and Elon Musk-esque blowhards, films this year took us inside the billionaire mindsetBetween the slash-and-burn US government reboot led by a dank meme fan and the relentless pushing of AI by venture capital-backed blowhards, 2025 has felt like peak obnoxious tech bro. Fittingly,

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UK actors vote to refuse to be digitally scanned in pushback against AI

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Equity says vote signals strong opposition to AI use and readiness to disrupt productions unless protections are securedActors have voted to refuse digital scanning to prevent their likeness being used by artificial intelligence in a pushback against AI in the arts.Members of the performing arts union Equity were asked if they would refuse to be

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James Cameron says AI actors are ‘horrifying to me’

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Avatar director, known for his advocacy of new technology, told interviewer generative AI performance puts ‘all human experience into a blender’Avatar director James Cameron has called AI actors “horrifying” and said what generative AI technology creates is “an average”.Cameron was speaking to CBS on Sunday Morning in the run-up to the release of the third

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