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Heretic’s End Credits Issue Statement Against AI

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Story by Apoorv Rastogi
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Heretic, a gripping horror-thriller starring Hugh Grant, makes a bold stand against AI's encroachment on filmmaking by declaring 'no generative AI was used' in its end credits.
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  • Directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods reveal their motivation for including the anti-AI message, stating 'this idea that an algorithm can just scrape all of human history and art...and somebody else can use that to create profit...I don't know why that's legal'.
  • The critically-acclaimed Heretic, with its impressive Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scores, relies on practical effects and rejects the excessive use of AI in filmmaking, which the directors believe is 'harmful in the long run' and threatens to 'replace every job on planet Earth'.
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Hugh Grant, Scott Beck, Bryan Woods, Heretic, A24, Heretic
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