Imperfect Paradise: How AI became a Hollywood villain – especially for animators (Redux)

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🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired on March 12, 2025.

Hollywood taught us to be afraid of a super powerful artificial intelligence that will one day conquer humanity. So not surprisingly, many screenwriters and actors are very skeptical of AI, and concerns about AI were central to the Hollywood labor strikes in 2023. But animators may actually be the most at risk of losing their jobs to AI.

In this episode, we’ll talk about why the first AI generated movies you will see will likely be animated, and what it means for the people who make them, and for everyone else in Hollywood.

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0:00.0	Support for LAIS comes from Car Pros Kia, presenting the Kia season of new tradition's sales event.
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0:15.0	Learn more at Car Pros Kia in Glendale, Huntington Beach, and Moreno Valley.
0:20.0	Support comes from Sony Pictures Classics
0:22.9	presenting Nuremberg. Following World War II, prosecutor Robert Jackson leads the trial of the
0:27.8	century as a U.S. Army psychiatrist confronts Herman Goring's mind. Powerhouse performances by
0:33.2	Russell Crow, Rami Malick, and Michael Shannon raves the Hollywood Reporter, Nuremberg, for your
0:38.4	awards consideration. This is in Perfect Paradise. I'm your host, Nereida Moreno, filling in for
0:44.1	Antonia Seri Hido. We'll be back with new episodes after the new year. In the meantime, we're
0:50.2	bringing you a special encore during the holidays, a fascinating two-part series about AI and Hollywood.
0:57.2	Since our series came out earlier this year, there's been a lot more debate over AI use within the entertainment industry.
1:04.2	Recently, Disney reached a licensing agreement with Open AI, allowing people to create and share videos using animated characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars.
1:15.3	Disney will also invest $1 billion in Open AI as part of its agreement.
1:20.5	In part one of our series today, we look at why animators in particular feel vulnerable to AI.
1:27.3	Here's Antonia. Here's Antonia.
1:33.8	I want to take you back to the summer of 2023.
1:37.3	When all of Hollywood was shut down because the actors and writers were on strike.
1:41.8	We are the victims here.
1:44.7	We are being victimized by a very greedy entity.
1:51.0	We're talking about fairness.
1:53.3	We're talking about inflation.
1:55.8	Also AI.
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