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The Oscars have laid down the law on AI in Hollywood movies. Kind of.
Academy rules have been updated to clarify that artificial intelligence tools “neither help nor harm the chances of achieving a nomination”.
It will be left to voters to take into account “the degree to which a human was at the heart of the creative authorship when choosing which movie to award”.
This ambivalence will fail to satisfy those who led last summer’s writer strikes, but will spare the academy an embarrassing volte-face if AI enhancements emerge in next year’s nominees, as they did this year with The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez.
If that seems like bowing to the inevitable, the Academy has put its foot down elsewhere.
For the first time in 96 years, members will have to watch all the nominated movies to be allowed to take part in the final round of voting.
