{"id":247788,"date":"2026-05-17T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/ai-surprises-in-cannes-with-more-curiosity-less-fear\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T17:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:55:40","slug":"ai-surprises-in-cannes-with-more-curiosity-less-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/ai-surprises-in-cannes-with-more-curiosity-less-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Surprises in Cannes With More Curiosity, Less Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/creative-content\/movies\/ai-filmmaking-cannes-film-festival-2026\/\">AI Surprises in Cannes With More Curiosity, Less Fear<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/creative-content\/movies\/ai-filmmaking-cannes-film-festival-2026\/\">https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/creative-content\/movies\/ai-filmmaking-cannes-film-festival-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-17 16:39:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thewrap.com\">www.thewrap.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"trinity-player trinity-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/trinitymedia.ai\/player\/trinity-i\/2900023920\/?pageURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thewrap.com%2Fcreative-content%2Fmovies%2Fai-filmmaking-cannes-film-festival-2026%2F&#038;readContentType=URL\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; width: 100% !important; height: 80px !important\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CANNES \u2013 On the Members Club beach at the Cannes Film Festival, a passionate filmmaker is wearing a pin that reads \u201cFuck AI.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the filmmaker is Todd Mann, the co-founder of Flawless, and he\u2019s here at the festival touting a new set of AI tools to help filmmakers and actors guarantee that their likeness isn\u2019t used by technology without their consent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to come together on the right stuff and to fight the wrong stuff,\u201d he said. \u201cWe can\u2019t put our heads in the sand, we\u2019ll get wiped out.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mann\u2019s pin was a conversation starter for a festival that didn\u2019t really need one when it came to artificial intelligence. Talk of the technology is everywhere, as are symposiums, panels and demonstrations around how to deploy it successfully, lashed to a debate over the limits and best uses on deck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s clear is that the AI has turned a corner among some film professionals, from being the object of panic and hostility and existential threat to real curiosity over how the technology can be leveraged to make filmmaking more economically viable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The conversation around \u201cassistive AI\u201d \u2013 tools that help with things like foreign language dubbing, matching images to dubbing or line changes and back office production \u2013 is where the focus is. These are efficiency tools that don\u2019t particularly threaten copyright or creative output.<\/p>\n<p>That stands in contrast to \u201cgenerative AI\u201d which is driven by the Large Language Models that scrape information from the broader universe and turn out the slop we all see (RIP Sora). Or \u201cagentic AI,\u201d which is the ability to solve problems by having AI write code itself. Those still feel like they will suck value from the legitimate work by creatives, or eliminate jobs now required by individual expertise.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Flawless co-founder Todd Mann wears a \u201cFuck AI\u201d pin at the Cannes Film Festival (Photo by Sharon Waxman)<\/p>\n<p>At a party on a yacht on Friday, about 100&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/creative-content\/movies\/ai-filmmaking-cannes-film-festival-2026\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Surprises in Cannes With More Curiosity, Less Fear https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/creative-content\/movies\/ai-filmmaking-cannes-film-festival-2026\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-17 16:39:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cannes-film-festival-2026-image.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247790,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247788\/revisions\/247790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}