Lionsgate’s New Deal Is a Test of Hollywood’s Relationship With AI

If that sounds like it might pique the interest of those who have been watching AI’s influence on creatives’ work, it did. Hours after The Wall Street Journal broke the story, writer-director Justine Bateman, who was vocally critical of AI during the Hollywood strikes last year, made a post on X that almost felt like a warning: “Over a year ago, I told you that I assumed the studios were NOT sending lawyers to the #AI companies over their models injesting [sic] their copyrighted films, because they wanted their own custom versions. Well, here you go.”