AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars
THE SO WHAT
Hollywood just drew a hard IP and labor line — awards prestige is now explicitly reserved for human-originated performance and writing, not AI output. If you're building AI tools for film, your wedge is augmentation and pre/post-production, not replacing credited creatives.
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