In two years nobody will care if actors are AI or not–director Mathieu Kassovitz
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"Fuck copyright," says the director of La Haine. Mathieu Kassovitz, the celebrated French filmmaker behind the 1995 classic, is now one of cinema's most passionate AI evangelists, and he's not mincing words.
Speaking at the World AI Film Festival in Cannes, Kassovitz predicted that AI-generated movie stars with millions of followers are just years away. He's currently producing an almost entirely AI-enabled film, slashing his visual effects budget from $60 million down to $25 million.
His comments landed with particular sting, given that Cannes' main festival just announced an AI ban for its official competition, with festival president Iris Knobloch insisting AI "will never feel deep emotions."
Kassovitz pushed back hard, arguing that filmmakers have always borrowed freely. "La Haine was made from other films... I stole shots from Scorsese that he stole from Kurosawa that he stole from Eisenstein."
Meanwhile, nearly 140 copyright lawsuits against AI companies are pending, mostly in the US.
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