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Friday, December 05, 2025

AI Slips In Where Hollywood Is Weakest

www.forbes.com: Hollywood fears AI might threaten prestige films and award-season scripts. The first real shift is happening somewhere else. The fastest-growing category in filmed entertainment is the one-minute vertical soap opera, the micro-drama. Viewers enter these stories the way they enter social feeds, without intention or commitment.

1 comment:

Maxwell Hamilton said...

I don't fully get the hatred of AI. I think there are defiantly instances where it's gonna backfire if it's used. But there are places for it. I recently made a comment on an article that was discussing using it for dubbing. Which I thought was actually a really good use case for AI. As it might be able to better capture the needs of the original film. Then actors that are just sourced for being able to speak the other language. I'm not saying that AI can't be bad. It's definitely got a long way to go. But people are definitely attempting to improve it. It has its purpose and the burying of it. The controversy around it. Seems really unnecessary. This article nails it on the head. AI is able to improve Hollywood where it's needed. Where it can penitentially be used to prop up a section of the industry that is struggling. Hence why I'm so for it being used to dub over content. Dubbing is hard, and it's inaccessible. AI can solve that problem.