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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/18/2026 07:34 EDT

Steven Soderbergh Defends AI Use in His New Documentary about John Lennon

John Lennon's last interview — just hours before he was shot on December 8, 1980 — has become a documentary directed by Steven Soderbergh, debuting Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival.

In a new interview with the Associated Press, Soderbergh defends the film's limited use of AI to visualize concepts from that two-hour interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono:

Soderbergh was resolved to let the audio play. He could finds ways to visualize much of the film, but that still left a large gap where the convers

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