Lionsgate sells movie catalog to AI video startup Runway hoping to replace artists and FX pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/22/l...
Hollywood studio Lionsgate has sold its entire back catalog of movies and TV shows to AI video startup Runway to train a new model on, which Lionsgate will then have access to. [WSJ, archive] Lions…
Has anyone told Lionsgate that you can make several big budget movies just for the cost of training the models? And that those movies would be something other than a pastiche of their back catalog?
I made this yesterday in reference to Lionsgate not posting the Blair Witch people but it turns out it’s also relevant here
Looks like it's licensing it to them, not selling them whole cloth. From archived WSJ: archive.is/NRz3B
I see. So back to books and boardgames then.
Lol thanks I hate it
I don't want to live in an AI future where it replaces artists nightmarish
Can’t wait for them to switch to AI-generated scripts and have weird Omegaverse and AO3 slash tropes show up unexpectedly
Depressing