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Sunday night at the Oscars, Conan O'Brien called himself "the last human host." Will Arnett got a standing ovation for: "Animation is more than a prompt. It's an art form and it needs to be protected." Four days earlier, Netflix paid $600M for Ben Affleck's AI post-production startup. So what's the real message? The tension I'm seeing: • Public stance: AI threatens human craft, must resist • Private reality: Massive investments in AI infrastructure • The gap between the stage speech and the boardroom deal • Editors, VFX artists, animators watching from the middle Here's my read: Hollywood wants to be seen resisting AI while adopting it behind closed doors. The Oscars are the public face. The $600M deals are the private truth. For those of us building with AI tools, this matters. You're on the right side of where the industry is actually going — but don't expect applause from the stage. Question for you: Do you think Hollywood's public AI resistance helps or hurts independent creators who are already using these tools? Does the anti-AI rhetoric protect jobs or just delay the inevitable conversation? I've lived through every tech disruption in this industry — analog to digital, linear to nonlinear, broadcast to streaming. The pattern is always the same: public fear, private adoption, then the tools become infrastructure. What's your take? Are we watching resistance or theater?

Here's What It Means for Your AI Video Workflow. Seedance 2.0 — the AI video model everybody was buzzing about — just got pulled from its global launch. ByteDance suspended it after copyright pressure from Disney, Netflix, and the major studios. Here's what happened and why it matters: Seedance shipped without IP guardrails. Users immediately generated Marvel characters, Star Wars scenes, and celebrity deepfakes. Disney sent a cease-and-desist accusing ByteDance of packaging "a pirated library of copyrighted characters." Hollywood found its weapon. Copyright disputes freeze launches, force negotiations, and let studios pick which AI tools survive. This is competitive positioning disguised as IP protection — Disney has a content deal with OpenAI's Sora. The model is still live in China but suspended globally. Creators who built workflows around Seedance are now stuck. The real lesson: Don't build your production pipeline on a single model, especially one with unresolved copyright issues. Diversify across tools. This is the same disruption pattern we've seen for decades—the tools change, the instinct to diversify doesn't. Everything becomes post. The skills that survive are the ones that aren't tied to any single platform. What's your take? Are you worried about building workflows on tools that could disappear overnight? Which AI video tools are you actually using in production right now? 👇 Drop your thoughts below.

Hey all, I'm Lawrence (Larry) Jordan from California. I was a professional film & TV editor here in LaLa Land for 30+ years, and with luck and good timing, I became one of the first people to edit a movie digitally on a computer, maybe some of you have heard of called the Avid Media Composer. That experience got me hooked on tech, which led me to building websites around my area of expertise. In 2018, I launched a very niche site and course that's now put 2,000+ students through it across 40+ countries. The turbulence in the film industry has slowed that biz to a crawl, but about 18 months ago I started immersing myself in AI, and I've been officially obsessed ever since. I've been building all kinds of tools with AI but haven't sold anything yet. However, I'm developing a major SaaS platform for AI filmmaking that will be in beta Q1 2026. I also run a newsletter and free Skool community called AIography for anyone interested in AI filmmaking. I really dug Trevor's intro video and know I can learn a lot from him and his group. So check it out if your interested.

I've been tracking something that dropped yesterday and I want to get your take on it. Canal+ — the French company behind Studiocanal, Paddington, Back to Black — just announced formal multi-year partnerships with both Google AND OpenAI in the same breath as their annual earnings call. Not a pilot. Not an experiment. Infrastructure. The specific use case they highlighted: Google's Veo3 to recreate historical moments from a single archival photo. That's not vague AI promise language. That's a direct hit on documentary production budgets, historical drama reshoots, and the entire stock footage licensing industry. And they're not alone. Disney already invested $1B in OpenAI and handed Frozen and Star Wars characters to Sora. Banijay just merged with All3Media and is talking up AI capabilities. Now Canal+. When both ends of the market — American blockbuster IP and European prestige cinema — formalize AI partnerships within months of each other, the middle has nowhere to hide. Here's the thing though — and this is what people are missing in all the doom takes: Canal+ simultaneously announced a new deal with Sky to develop English-language drama. At least two projects a year for three years. They're deploying AI AND commissioning more human-driven storytelling at the same time. AI doesn't kill demand for content. It changes the cost structure of producing it. The studios that use AI to make more will win. The ones that only use it to spend less will just be cheaper versions of what they already were. I've been in this industry through every major technology transition. This one feels different in speed. Not in kind. The question on the table for all of us right now: are you positioning yourself as someone who knows how to direct the machines? Or are you waiting to see how this shakes out? Curious what you're seeing from where you sit. Drop it below. 👇