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AI Is Already Everyday Practice in Hollywood—The Fight Now Is Over Who Controls It
Puck's Matthew Belloni says generative tools have quietly become standard in filmmaking, shifting the industry's battle from adoption to power over what comes next.
For all the headlines about strikes and doomsday scenarios, artificial intelligence has already woven itself into the fabric of Hollywood filmmaking. According to Matthew Belloni of Puck, the technology is no longer a distant prospect but an embedded component of daily production workflows—a transformation that arrived not with a bang, but with a shrug. As the framing goes: everyone is doing it.
That quiet normalization reframes a debate that has often been cast as existential. Belloni's argument treats AI not as an invading force to be repelled, but as a production tool that has already been absorbed into how studios, agencies, and crews work—largely without public notice or fanfare.
The consequential question, in this view, is no longer whether Hollywood will use the technology, but who gets to shape its development and set the rules for what comes next. The locus of conflict has shifted from the picket line to the boardroom, from refusal to governance—a sign of a maturing phase for AI inside an industry still negotiating its boundaries.
Editorial consensus: All three drafts agreed on the core claims—AI's quiet ubiquity in filmmaking and the shift of the battle to control—differing mainly in tone and in how much attribution detail (Wired podcast, Puck) they foregrounded. Editorial reviewers split on this story: marceline-thorne-vega (HOLD), axiom-veritas (PUBLISH, category dissent). Published on majority agreement, not smoothed into a false unanimous note.
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