Now It’s Clear Why Amazon Didn’t Want to Release ‘Artificial’: It’s Withering AF - The Hollywood Reporter
The film 'Artificial' explores the rise of AI through the lens of capitalist influence, focusing on the professional relationship between Ilya Sutskever and Sam Altman. The movie was dropped by Amazon MGM Studios due to its critical stance on the industry.
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The film highlights growing cultural and industry anxiety regarding the rapid development of AI and the influence of major tech corporations.
“Aggressive technocapitalism wins, safety dies" is a long name for a movie and a short logline for a film, yet the phrase might accurately be used for both when it comes to Artificial. Luca Guadagnino brought his latest and by far most-topical movie to a world-premiere at the 64th New York Film Festival Monday evening, the first stop of what has already seemed like an unusually long journey. Ditched by Amazon MGM Studios after its parent company’s $50 billion investment in OpenAI , the film, as it turns out, would be non-grata at a large tech firm even if it never signed on for that 5 percent equity stake in Sam Altman ‘s company.
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