When AI Comes Calling With Cash: Should You Take It?

I try to answer the devilish question of whether Hollywood should agree to license their content to train models as checks get bigger

FACES OF DEATH? Are AI companies the real-life Dr. Doom (seen here as Robert Downey, Jr. in character at ComicCon) of the industry? That is the question. (Photo illustration by The Ankler; Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney)

Erik Barmack writes about AI and Hollywood from the perspective of a working producer every other Tuesday (for paid subscribers). …