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OpenAI’s Critterz blowback: Year zero for Hollywood

Director Nik Kleverov

Critterz was one of the first feature films built primarily with AI, but OpenAI abruptly shut down Sora, the very tool its director was relying on. Nik Kleverov, Chief Creative Officer of Native Foreign, makes the case for why AI isn’t killing Hollywood, it’s about to reinvent it

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