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Lauren Milici

IMAX is hosting a "one-day global storytelling event" for "the world's best AI-assisted short films," and the very predictable backlash is strong

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An crowded theater at an IMAX in Lincoln Square.

IMAX has announced an AI-assisted short film festival...and people are, unsurprisingly, very unhappy.

According to their official website, IMAX is hosting Runway's third annual AI Film Festival which is a "celebration of the art and artists embracing new and emerging AI tools for filmmaking." Over six thousand films were submitted to the film festival, and ten were selected, which will be shown in IMAX theaters nationwide. Runway is a generative AI company that was founded in 2018, and each short film was composed using the software. The jurors for the festival include directors Gaspar Noé and Harmony Korine, the latter of whom has a first-look deal with Runway to release his second AI-assisted movie (the first being that movie with the scary baby heads).

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