Steven Soderbergh used AI in a documentary about John Lennon. And he wants to talk about it
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AP — When Soderbergh let the news out earlier this year, it prompted an uproar. One of America’s leading filmmakers was using AI? In a film about a Beatle, no less?
The AI parts (overwhelmingly slammed by critics in Cannes) are fairly banal and don’t differ greatly from special effects — there are no deepfakes of Lennon. But they put Soderberg at the forefront of an industrywide debate about the uses of AI in moviemaking.
It’s a conversation the director, who has made movies on iPhones, is eager to have.
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