You’re probably aware there’s a little controversy around this year’s top pick at the Oscars. Brady Corbet, the director of The Brutalist, an epic three-and-a-half-hour film about a Hungarian architect in 1950s America, has been accused of using AI to generate architectural drawings and zhuzh the voice of its actors speaking in a foreign language.
This particular debacle is a useful metaphor for what’s going on in Hollywood more widely. AI is uprooting how films are made – and more importantly, how they’re viewed.
