Meet the filmmakers in Hollywood who aren't afraid of AI.

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This is Imperfect Paradise. I'm your host, Nerida Moreno, filling in for Antonia Seri Hido. New episodes of Imperfect Paradise will be back next week.

In the meantime today, we're bringing you another special encore episode, part two of our

AI in Hollywood series.

In last week's episode, we talked to animators who were afraid AI would replace them.

But in this episode, we hear from filmmakers who aren't so scared.

They're actually embracing AI in their work. Here's Antonia.

So, Emily, when you first started reporting on AI in Hollywood, what did you know about it?

You know, I'd heard all the doomsday stuff, the labor concerns, the copyright concerns.

And at a certain point in my reporting, I just realized that I hadn't actually talked to anyone who really liked or had let alone used AI and filmmaking.

And I really wanted to.

This is my colleague, Emily Garan,

who's been looking into how AI in Hollywood is actually being used. Was it hard to find people who loved it? I was anticipating it would be difficult because I had interviewed this reporter,

Devin Gordon, who writes for the New York Times Magazine, And he told me that all these people would cancel on him.

Like people he wanted to talk to because they used AI at the last minute would get cold feet or their publicists would be like, no way.

You can't talk to the New York Times Magazine about this.

So I was surprised when I reached out to these two filmmakers who both use AI in really different ways,

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