George Strompolos

Businessweek Verified account @BW · Oct 22

AI raises questions about creativity, empowerment and business threats from Big Tech on the future of movies, television and social media.

This roundtable brings together four prominent leaders from the entertainment world. Their conversation, moderated by Bloomberg Businessweek’s editor, @BradStone, discusses the evolving risks and benefits of AI in Hollywood bloom.bg/3WFFGda

Featuring: Marge Dean, head of studio, Skybound Animation; @gstrompolos, co-founder & CEO, @promise_ai; @DuncanCI, national executive director & chief negotiator, SAG-AFTRA; @Kishori, producer & writer, Viva Maude

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Denver Westword @denverwestword · Sep 9

Starting next summer, creatives can start forming A-Corps through the Colorado Secretary of State. Here’s what artists should know: westword.com/arts-culture/w…

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Matt Jarbo Verified account @mjarbo · Aug 11

An AI studio is making a horror movie about the Dead Internet Theory.

Okay, THAT has my attention.

Promise's TOUCH GRASS is being directed by AI filmmaker Dave Clark with BACKROOMS producer Chris White and Bloody Disgusting co-founder Brad Miska producing.

And despite the headline, this isn't an entirely AI-generated movie.

They're using actors. Practical effects. Traditional VFX. Real production. AND generative AI.

That's the part everyone is going to skip while fighting about the word “AI,” but it's probably the most important part of this whole story.

Hybrid filmmaking.

Use the real camera when that works. Use practical effects when that works. Use VFX when that works. Use AI when THAT works.

Whether TOUCH GRASS is actually any good is another question. BACKROOMS had years of internet mythology behind it. Dead Internet Theory doesn't.

But an AI company making a horror movie about an internet overrun by AI?

That's either incredibly clever or spectacularly on the nose.

Either way, I want to see what the hell they make.

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