{"id":23848,"date":"2026-04-13T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23848"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:01:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:01:44","slug":"a-rare-look-at-how-hollywood-is-already-using-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/13\/a-rare-look-at-how-hollywood-is-already-using-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A rare look at how Hollywood is already using AI&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been sending this video to friends &amp; family to explain what the heck it is I actually, y&#8217;know, do for a living. (It&#8217;s somehow related to enabling all this!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A rare look at how Hollywood is already using AI\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Cpsy6pV-4U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a good summary from Gemini:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Digital Clones for A-listers (0:33\u20131:56):<\/strong>&nbsp;The&nbsp;<em>Creative Artist Agency (CAA)<\/em>&nbsp;is helping actors create and store secure digital doubles of their likeness and vocal inflections. This serves as a &#8220;vault&#8221; to protect their intellectual property and assert rights against unauthorized use.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Deep Voodoo\u2019s AI Innovations (2:15\u20133:54):<\/strong>&nbsp;Founded by&nbsp;<em>Trey Parker<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Matt Stone<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>South Park<\/em>, this studio uses proprietary facial scanning and AI to perform tasks like real-time de-aging for projects like the TV series&nbsp;<em>Before<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Billy Joel<\/em>&#8216;s recent music video.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Production Efficiency and Ethics (6:03\u20137:40):<\/strong>&nbsp;Director&nbsp;<em>Darren Aronofsky<\/em>&nbsp;and filmmaker&nbsp;<em>Eliza McNitt<\/em>&nbsp;utilized&nbsp;<em>Google&#8217;s Veo 3<\/em>&nbsp;model for the short film&nbsp;<em>Ancestra<\/em>. AI allowed them to create complex cosmic visuals and even recreate a newborn baby digitally to avoid the ethical concerns of filming with a real infant.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Commercially Safe AI Tools (8:00\u20139:10):<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Asteria Film Company<\/em>, co-founded by&nbsp;<em>Natasha Lyonne<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Bin Moser<\/em>, focuses on building &#8220;commercially safe&#8221; AI models trained strictly on licensed materials to avoid copyright infringement, emphasizing that learning to use AI is an essential skill for modern filmmakers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Human Element (4:48\u20135:13):<\/strong>&nbsp;Despite the rapid evolution of AI, industry unions like&nbsp;<em>SAG-AFTRA<\/em>&nbsp;emphasize that human performers bring a unique, special quality to projects that algorithms cannot replicate, advocating for guardrails to ensure AI serves as a tool for creators rather than a replacement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been sending this video to friends &amp; family to explain what the heck it is I actually, y&#8217;know, do for a living. (It&#8217;s somehow related to enabling all this!) Here&#8217;s a good summary from Gemini:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23850,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23848\/revisions\/23850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}