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Nina Metz: To AI or not to AI? It’s not even a question — Hollywood is embracing artificial intelligence

A live demonstration uses artificial intelligence and facial recognition in dense crowd spatial-temporal technology at the Horizon Robotics exhibit at the Las Vegas Convention Center during CES 2019 in Las Vegas on Jan. 10, 2019.

The artificial intelligence text generator ChatGPT has been the subject of debate recently, but let’s take the AI conversation a step further, to Hollywood. More and more, I’m seeing examples of manipulated performances pop up on social media — altering an actor’s gaze or the words they’re saying — and it’s being presented with unmitigated enthusiasm.

Maybe the folks behind some of those posts have a vested interest in seeing AI technology become the norm. Expected. But where’s the skepticism? Where’s the wariness?

Let’s step into the breach.

Consider the Twitter user who a monologue from Hulu’s “The Bear” featuring Jeremy Allen

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