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Hey, I hope you check out this week’s Bulwark Goes to Hollywood with David C. Lowery of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven fame. We had a great chat about his new autobiographical solo album and his new Substack, which is kind of like an annotated companion to the record. You should subscribe to it!
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On this week’s episode of The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood, I interviewed New York magazine’s Lila Shapiro about her big feature piece on the extent to which Hollywood is already (quietly) using generative AI in movies. I hope you read her piece and listen to the episode; they’re pretty eye-opening for anyone who has kept tabs on AI creep in the entertainment industry.
I want to briefly highlight one passage in particular real quick, because it’s the sort of thing I find almost viscerally repulsive yet have trouble articulating why. Shapiro is talking here to Cristóbal Valenzuela, cofounder of generative AI company Runway:
In 2023, a group of artists sued Runway and several other generative-AI companies. In response to that suit (which is ongoing) and dozens of similar cases, the