Post #6211

🔔Netflix just made one of the most dangerous moves in Hollywood They didn’t buy Warner Bros. Instead, they bought something potentially far more disruptive, a secretive AI company called InterPositive, founded by Ben Affleck. Most people have never heard of it and that was intentional. Affleck reportedly registered the company through a shell entity called Fin Bone LLC, quietly filing patents while continuing his career as an actor and director. What the AI does: It trains directly on a film’s raw footage (the dailies) and can then: • Relight scenes • Reframe shots • Remove stunt wires • Fix missing camera angles • Color-grade entire films • Add visual effects In short, work that currently takes large VFX and post-production teams weeks could potentially be done in minutes. The timing is interesting. Last week, Netflix walked away from an $83B bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. Wall Street loved the decision, the stock jumped 14%. Days later, Netflix quietly acquired technology that could reshape how films are finished. Instead of buying a traditional studio, they may have just bought thefuture production pipeline. And the timing couldn’t be more sensitive. The SAG-AFTRA contract expires in June, and AI is the biggest issue on the table, the last fight over it shut Hollywood down for months in 2023. Netflix says the technology will “empower filmmakers.” But one question hangs over the entire industry: What happens when a machine can do in seconds what thousands of artists currently do in weeks? @aipost🏴