{
  "$type": "site.standard.document",
  "bskyPostRef": {
    "cid": "bafyreidspb2wbykq6sxrbonnha65xuzfu5w4ojp3klpmav3kno22opurpy",
    "uri": "at://did:plc:4jjxx3max7tcdxwmdkjrnyj4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlplnor5a4s2"
  },
  "coverImage": {
    "$type": "blob",
    "ref": {
      "$link": "bafkreiggxc2vnrxxnh76vvbjswgot4fw272yshcyhls5vzxn4hiynmg4lq"
    },
    "mimeType": "image/webp",
    "size": 18658
  },
  "path": "/ai-argument",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-12T19:40:02.000Z",
  "site": "https://nofilmschool.com",
  "tags": [
    "Ai",
    "Cannes film festival",
    "Cannes",
    "Demi moore",
    "Paul laverty",
    "Variety"
  ],
  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nThe 79th Cannes Film Festival opened today, with its jury fielding questions not just about cinema, but about the technology reshaping it.\n\nAt the opening jury press conference, _The Substance_ star Demi Moore and screenwriter Paul Laverty offered two different takes on AI in filmmaking.\n\nMoore, asked by Variety about AI's impact on the movie business and whether enough is being done to regulate it, didn't seem entirely comfortable with the question.\n\n\"Wow, that's a big question,\" she said. \"I think the reality is to resist—I always feel that against-ness breeds against-ness. AI is here. So to fight it is to fight a battle that we will lose. So to find ways in which we can work with it I think is a more valuable path that we can take.\"\n\n> She acknowledged she doesn't think the industry has its arms around the problem yet.\n\n\"To your question of, are we doing enough to protect ourselves? I don't know the answer to that. And so my inclination would be to say probably not,\" she said.\n\nStill, she drew a firm line about what AI can't touch.\n\nThere are \"beautiful aspects of being able to utilize it,\" she said, but \"there really isn’t anything to fear because what it can never replace is what true art comes from, which is not the physical; it comes from the soul. It comes from the spirit of each and every one of us sitting here, to each and every one of us who creates every day. And that they can never recreate through something that is technical.\"\n\nLaverty (the Scottish screenwriter and longtime Ken Loach collaborator behind Palme d'Or winners _The Wind That Shakes the Barley_ and _I, Daniel Blake)_ followed up with something considerably sharper.\n\nFor him, the conversation can't stay abstract. It has to start with a question of ownership.\n\n> \"I think it's super important, we must remember—look at the concentration of power. Who owns these great corporations? People like [Peter] Thiel. He hasn't got much positive to say about human dignity. He doesn't care a toss about equality. He doesn't care who has access to it. So I think we have to look at the first thing and see, who owns it? Because they decide on the algorithms that affect our lives in the deepest way. And what seems to be absolutely incredible is that they do it and then assume the rest of the world will follow and swallow it no matter what the consequences are. Look at the whole crisis now in data, factories affecting sustainability, water, affecting populations. And I think what people are beginning to realize that we shouldn't let these tech-bro billionaires who are mostly right-wing libertarians dictate how we live our lives.\"\n\nHis conclusion: \"We must demand, I think, that we make it in a way that's more transparent and democratic. Because it's far too important to leave it to these guys.\"\n\n> Laverty was by far the most outspoken among the Cannes jurors on the festival's opening day.\n\nThe jury, led by Park Chan-wook, also includes Chloé Zhao, Stellan Skarsgård, Ruth Negga, Isaach De Bankolé, Laura Wandel, and Diego Céspedes. They'll award the Palme d'Or on May 23.",
  "title": "Demi Moore and Paul Laverty Clash Over AI at Cannes Jury Press Conference"
}