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AI v Hollywood: One battle after another to save the human performance
Sora and synthetic stars show how fast AI is surging into cinema – threatening human actors and the soul that goes into their craft.
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Leonardo DiCaprio (left) and Benicio Del Toro in a still from One Battle After Another. The writer wonders if studios will still need actors like them in future when they can easily be replaced by AI-generated replicas cobbled from their existing performances.
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Such is the swift march of artificial intelligence (AI) into film-making that one cannot help but wonder, after watching Leonardo DiCaprio in the political satire One Battle After Another
The Hollywood superstar, playing a swaggering former revolutionary turned bathrobe-clad degenerate with remnants of decency (and fierce love for his daughter), delivers the kind of electric, zany performance that has cemented him as the industry’s pinnacle – its ultimate prestige actor.
