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Hollywood's institutions and its stars take opposite public positions on AI, the same week

Variety via Google News, Oct 13 · read the original

Variety reports the industry is warming to AI tools even as individual actors keep refusing it in public, the same week Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney confirms a 'huge pivot' moving developers to an AI-first production model for a delayed Disney game.

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