Source: The Next Web
Soderbergh's use of Meta's generative AI in "John Lennon: The Last Interview"—and his embrace of the resulting backlash—makes viewer discomfort with the technology itself the film's subject. The audience's resistance to AI aesthetics becomes part of what the work examines. Rather than using polarizing tech as a tool to hide behind, he deploys it as provocation: what exactly are we rejecting when we reject AI-generated imagery, and why?