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A.I.’s Independence Day Terror

A frank conversation about the real and immediate impacts of the incipient and ubiquitous technology on entertainment—Midjourney implications, job wipeouts, licensing realities, and what to expect in the next decade versus what’s science fiction.

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"Even if audiences evolve to a point where they can truly and fully separate humanity from the arts, I don’t really know if these more ethically minded companies stand a real shot," says Ian Krietzberg. Photo: Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images
Matthew Belloni
Ian Krietzberg
Eriq Gardner
July 3, 2025

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I’m on record saying the manner in which Hollywood responds to artificial intelligence in the next few years will be the defining move of the next few decades. And there’s been lots of news on that front over the past few weeks. So much, in fact, that I needed to assemble Puck’s new A.I. correspondent, Ian Krietzberg (sign up for his email here), and our legal expert, Eriq Gardner, for a tag-team cross-talk on the state of play when it comes to generative A.I. and the professional content industry…