aceWhy are respected film-makers suddenly embracing AI?
In Steven Soderbergh’s beguiling new movie The Christophers, a reclusive artist (Ian McKellen) tangles with the quiet art forger (Michaela Coel) who his greedy children have hired to secretly finish further entries in a well-known painting series. The movie is smart and provocative about the nature of artistry and authorship, exploring what it means to create – and to stop creating. It’s especially fascinating coming from Soderbergh, who has made movies with workhorse dependability (The Christophers is his third…
When given proper time and human oversight, AI tools for sets, lighting and imagery can produce film visuals that are effectively invisible and sharply reduce production budgets.
Routine use of AI-generated sets, lighting and imagery in typical film productions risks further visual degradation and enables plagiarism and crew displacement framed as mass layoffs.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-04-21
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