Ocean's 11 and Presence director Steven Soderbergh has once again weighed in on AI in filmmaking, this time adding fresh fuel to an already heated debate. In a recent interview with Filmmaker Magazine, Soderbergh explains why he’s filling 10 minutes of his upcoming documentary on John Lennon and Yoko Ono with AI-generated footage to better portray the “dream world.”

"AI has been helpful in creating thematically surreal images that occupy a dream space rather than a literal space," Soderbergh told Filmmaker. "And that’s been really fun because you need a PhD. in literature to tell it what to do. But like every other piece of technology, it desperately requires very close human........

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