The audience has already voted with its gut. Pew found 52 percent of Americans are more concerned than excited about AI in daily life, with excitement in the single digits. Pew Now imagine the headline: an AI-generated film wins Best Picture. To half the country, that reads as Hollywood endorsing the exact thing they fear, handed a trophy by the industry most visibly threatened by it. The Oscars are already fighting for relevance with a shrinking audience. Crowning a machine's movie would not look bold. It would look like the industry surrendering its last argument for why human art matters, on live television.
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