Hessen Schei directed current fest titlePraying for Armageddon.
The powers that be are making all of the money off the backs of these people.
Dont tell me times are tough.
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you could share the pie.
This is just the beginning.
AI is going to change everything, and already has, she said.
AI, what it really does is that it makes everything more efficient.
But there are processes in the creative work of the filmmaking industry that really shouldnt be efficient.
Esposito said the notion of AI upending the entertainment business makes me so upset.
At the end of this long line is money and greed.
Some of it can be great, but without regulation, youre going to replace people and art.
To put this in a machine and create something with it is frightening to me.
We always thought, The one thing they cant replace is human creativity.
And one of the things with AI is that its developing so fast.
… We dont have policymakers with enough knowledge to put the regulations in place.
A couple of years from now, people are not going to care.
She marveled at the headlong embrace of technology and social media in the entertainment business despite its well-documented downsides.
I dont think its helping us.
We see where young people are today: theyre struggling, she said.
Were at a really scary moment.
The streamers have just weakened all of the distributors.
And now, theyve turned that faucet off, and its brutal.
The panel came just past the halfway point of the Hamptons event, which wraps up Thursday.
