Imperfect Paradise: Meet the filmmakers who love AI (Redux)
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3.7 • 889 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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This episode originally aired on March 19, 2025.
It’s hard to find people in Hollywood who are willing to speak publicly about their enthusiasm for AI, for fear of being seen as “siding with the machines.” And yet, many people are quietly using the technology already. In this episode, we interview two enthusiastic early adopters of AI in filmmaking about how they’re using it, its strengths and limitations, and how they respond to people who say AI is going to ruin Hollywood.
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| 0:28.0 | slash events for more information. This is Imperfect Paradise. I'm your host, Nerida Moreno, |
| 0:33.6 | filling in for Antonia Seregido. New episodes of Imperfect Paradise will be back next week. |
| 0:39.8 | In the meantime today, we're bringing you another special encore episode, part two of our |
| 0:45.1 | AI in Hollywood series. |
| 0:47.3 | In last week's episode, we talked to animators who were afraid AI would replace them. |
| 0:52.1 | But in this episode, we hear from filmmakers who aren't so scared. |
| 0:56.2 | They're actually embracing AI in their work. Here's Antonia. |
| 1:06.2 | So, Emily, when you first started reporting on AI in Hollywood, what did you know about it? |
| 1:11.6 | You know, I'd heard all the doomsday stuff, the labor concerns, the copyright concerns. |
| 1:16.3 | 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. |
| 1:25.8 | And I really wanted to. |
| 1:27.6 | This is my colleague, Emily Garon, |
| 1:29.4 | who's been looking into how AI in Hollywood is actually being used. |
| 1:34.0 | Was it hard to find people who loved it? |
| 1:37.0 | I was anticipating it would be difficult |
| 1:38.8 | because I had interviewed this reporter, Devin Gordon, |
| 1:42.3 | who writes for the New York Times Magazine, |
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