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AI & Truth: Can the Philippines Avoid Digital Dystopia? The Philippines, land of beautiful beaches, delicious adobo, and now, apparently, a burgeoning battleground for the soul of truth itself. A recent summit at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) sounded the alarm: AI is here, it’s learning Tagalog, and it might be…
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AI: The Storyteller’s New Best Friend (Maybe) So, AI is now writing stories. Or, more accurately, assisting in the writing of stories. Depending on who you ask, this is either the dawn of a new creative age or the beginning of the end for writers as we know them. Here at 404.blog, we’re cautiously…
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The AI-Powered Indie Film Renaissance? Don’t Hold Your Breath (Yet). Eric Shamlin, CEO of AI-native studio Secret Level, paints a rosy picture of AI democratizing filmmaking. He envisions a world where indie creators, armed with AI tools, can conjure Tom Cruise space epics on a shoestring budget. The dream: a return to the glory…
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Kamal Haasan’s AI Pilgrimage: From Cinema to Silicon Valley Kamal Haasan, the veteran actor and filmmaker, recently journeyed to the heart of technological innovation, visiting Perplexity AI’s headquarters in San Francisco. His mission? To commune with CEO Aravind Srinivas and explore the burgeoning role of artificial intelligence in the hallowed halls of filmmaking. East…
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Blackbird Plunges into the AI-Powered Movie Biz Australian VC firm Blackbird Ventures is making moves, folks. They’ve thrown their hat into the ring (and a chunk of change into the pot) with London-based AI creative studio, Wonder. The studio just snagged $6 million in pre-seed funding to develop AI tech aimed at, you guessed…
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James Cameron, the man who brought us blue cat people and the sinking of the unsinkable (twice, if you count the script meetings), has weighed in on AI’s role in filmmaking. And like any good sci-fi plot, it’s a mixed bag of optimism and existential dread. Efficiency vs. Extinction: The Budgetary Balancing Act Fresh…
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Lights, Camera, Algorithm: AI’s Red Carpet Debut in 2025 Forget the craft services table laden with lukewarm coffee and questionable pastries. The real fuel of filmmaking in 2025? Cold, hard, processing power. AI filmmaking is here, it’s evolving faster than a plot twist in a Christopher Nolan film, and it’s raising eyebrows faster than…
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Cameron’s AI U-Turn: From Terminator Fears to VFX Friend James Cameron, director of cinematic behemoths like Avatar and The Terminator, has seemingly softened his stance on artificial intelligence. Once a vocal critic, citing potential dystopian nightmares ripped straight from his own films, he’s now singing a different tune. What gives? From Doomsayer to Efficiency…
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Tollywood titan Dil Raju is diving headfirst into the AI pool. His production house, Sri Venkateswara Creations, is partnering with Quantum AI Global to launch an “AI-powered media company.” Because apparently, making movies the old-fashioned way is so last year. AI: The New Director’s Cut? The announcement, delivered with the usual fanfare on X/Twitter,…
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James Cameron, the man who once warned us about sentient killing machines, is now cozying up to AI. Has Skynet won? Not quite. It seems the director of Titanic and Avatar has joined Stability AI’s Board of Directors, sparking a wave of speculation – and probably a few nervous glances from VFX artists. The…