Paul Schrader is defending the use of AI in creating movies and predicts we’re only a couple years away from the first film made entirely with the technology.

The 79-year-old writer-director tells Vanity Fair that he’s been working on a script that would be ideal for the first all-AI project.

“I think we’re only two years away from the first AI feature,” the Taxi Driver screenwriter declared. “I was just on the phone with someone today about a script I had, and I said, “You know, this would be a perfect script to do all AI … It’s just a tool. When you’re an author, you have to describe someone’s reaction. You use a code — you use a code of words, a certain number of letters and so forth, and you [describe] their facial reaction. An actor has their own code. Well, [with AI] you’r

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