George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts
THE SO WHAT
When a filmmaker of Lucas’s stature frames AI as inevitable, it gives studio execs and line producers political cover to push harder on automation in VFX and post. If you’re in the content pipeline, start mapping which steps you want to own versus outsource to AI-heavy vendors before those decisions are made for you.
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