Natasha Lyonne says AI has an ethics problem because right now it’s 'super kosher copacetic to rob freely under the auspices of acceleration'

lastmansurfing
Dec 22, 2025
1 min read

Actor Natasha Lyonne may not come from the tech world, but her production company is emerging as a trailblazer in bringing AI content to the big screen—and she has thoughts about the tech’s increasing influence.

Lyonne, who is most well-known for an on-screen roles in Netflix’s “Russian Doll” and “Orange is the New Black,” is also a writer, director, and the cofounder of Asteria Film Co., an artist-led animation and film studio that aims to provide high-quality and copyright friendly generative AI for marquee content.

Other AI video-generation models like OpenAI’s Sora 2 and Google’s Veo 3 have run into controversy for scraping the web and sometimes clashing with copyright rules. Asteria, which Lyonne co-founded in 2022, is taking a different approach.