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

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

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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0:15.4	It's Frances Lamb, host of The Splendid Table, and we are coming your way, L.A.. join us for a special live taping in the show where I'll be talking with some of L.A.'s
0:23.2	Leading Food Writers and Favorite Chefs.
0:25.4	It's March 23 at the Aratani Theater.
0:27.8	Tickets at laist.com slash events.
0:34.8	You're listening to Imperfect Paradise.
0:37.2	I'm Antonio Sirequita.
0:38.7	And I want to take you back to the summer of 2023.
0:42.2	When all of Hollywood was shut down
0:44.2	because the actors and writers were on strike.
0:47.1	We are the victims here.
0:49.9	We are being victimized by a very greedy entity.
0:56.3	We're talking about fairness.
0:58.6	We're talking about inflation.
1:01.1	Also AI for an actor.
1:03.7	A few months before the strike, OpenAI had released Chatty.
1:08.2	And writers in Hollywood were immediately worried that studios might use this new AI program
1:13.7	to replace them. So we need to make it clear. There needs to be a human writer in charge.
1:19.1	And we're not trying to be gig workers just revising what AI does. Then the first text image AI
1:25.9	tools arrived, programs like Mid Journey and Dolly, which could create a picture or video based on a text prompt.
1:33.1	And that's when the actors started freaking out.
1:36.8	I found out that someone had plastered my face on a playable character.
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