Levi: Studios Fed 150,000 Scripts into an AI Model
Zachary Levi · What Happens When AI Can Do Every Job? · Joe Lonsdale · Sep 25, 2025 · at 46:23
Actor Zachary Levi discusses AI's threat to filmmaking and screenwriting with host Joe Lonsdale.
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“And the studios have already fed a 150,000 of the best scripts ever written into an AI model.”
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