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Guillermo del Toro Sounds the Alarm About AI and Threats to Creative Freedom: ‘We Are on the Verge of Cinema Illiteracy’

1d 3h ago by piefed.social/u/TheImpressiveX in movies@piefed.social from variety.com

Guillermo del Toro sounded the alarm about AI and threats to creative freedom as he celebrated his BFI Fellowship honor in Hollywood.

I think the bigger threat to cinema is conglomeration. Allowing all the studios to merge, and then buy up the streaming channels, and internet companies is a recipe for killing creativity and free speech.

Two things can be threats to cinema.

How about a third thing? People with no attention spans that look at their phones during the movie instead of paying attention to it.

If only it was just cinema illiteracy.

I think that cinema illiteracy is the least of our worries as we move toward slop as the standard.

AI slop is a mediocrity gold mine