Since the beginning, Hollywood has been fascinated by stories about artificial intelligence but now it's being forced to reckon with films made by it.
The Last Screenwriter by Swedish filmmaker Peter Luisi claims to be the first feature film entirely written by AI.
But good luck seeing it in theatres - its planned premiere was pulled before anyone could see it, with the cinema citing backlash to the film's premise.
That's something Newshub Entertainment Editor Kate Rodger thinks they should probably have seen coming.
"We saw one of the longest strikes in Hollywood history, and one of the sticking points for both of those strikes under both of those contracts, for the writers and the actors, was the use of AI," she said.
"If you're going to produce a film entirely written by ChatGPT, and expect it's not going to get this kind of backlash? Yeah, slightly bonkers."
Responding to the backlash, the director said he was attempting to "start a conversation" about the impact of artificial intelligence on his profession.
"It's called The Last Screenwriter. It's about a screenwriter who finds out his AI can make a better film and write a better story than he can," Rodger said.
"The fact that it's been pulled by the Prince Charles cinema in the UK is interesting because it does fuel that conversation."
But screenwriters aren't the only profession potentially impacted by AI. Tools like Dream from Luma Labs or OpenAI's Sora promise ultra-realistic visuals based on any prompt, at the click of a button.
But experts here like Brainbox AI lead Allyn Robins say directors shouldn't panic just yet.
"The examples that you see now tend to, even when they're impressive, be pretty slow-moving things. A relatively static shot and quite short like 10 or 30 seconds at most," Robins told Newshub.
"I don't think it's going to get better to the point where it can generate whole feature films. Or at the very least, if you tried to generate a feature film with it, it would really, really, really suck."
The Last Screenwriter will be released online in July, with Hollywood waiting to see if its title proves prophetic.
