Seth Rogen laughed into a microphone at the 79th Cannes Film Festival and didn't hold back. The star of The Studio told writers using AI to produce scripts to go do something else. Rogen called the current crop of AI-generated videos the most stupid dog s**t he has ever seen. He argued that if a filmmaker doesn't want to go through the human process of writing, they shouldn't be in the industry at all. The 42-year-old actor’s comments come as Hollywood enters a fragile four-year pact to protect human labor from digital ghosts.

Steven Soderbergh is taking a different path on the Riviera. The director used AI technology in his new documentary, John Lennon: The Last Interview, to polish surviving tapes of the music legend. Soderbergh told an audience in Cannes on Saturday that he owes people the best version of his art and total transparency. The film uses recordings from the Dakota Apartments on the day Lennon was shot in 1980. While Rogen sneers at the tech, the industry is already watching MJ top $600 million at the box office with help from synthetic magic.

Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez revved up the red carpet for the 25th anniversary of The Fast and the Furious. The spectacle at the Palais des Festivals proved that the old guard still knows how to throw a party. Even as Cerebras Systems celebrates a 68% jump on its Nasdaq debut, the stars in Cannes are more interested in the 5.00% high-yield savings of social relevance. The biological velvet rope remains tight, but the machines are already at the door.