Los Angeles’s AI boosters tout the latest disruptive technology as a democratizing force in film, one that will liberate creators by taking over dull and painstaking tasks like motion capture, allowing them to turn their ideas into finished works of art without a budget of millions or tens of millions of dollars. Critics say that studio executives simply want to replace unionized artists with compliant robots.
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