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547 AI 'Crashes the Party' at This Year's Cannes Film Festival - Including Multi-Year Meta Partnership

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/24/2026 21:34 EDT

AI 'Crashes the Party' at This Year's Cannes Film Festival - Including Multi-Year Meta Partnership

AI "crashed the party" at this year's Cannes Film Festival, writes The Hollywood Reporter. The festival exposed "the fault lines reshaping cinema," their article argues, including how "AI is here — and the industry has stopped pretending otherwise."

A humanoid robot spotted marching up and down the Croisette seemed to sum up the worst AI fears of the film industry — the machines have arrived and they are taking your place. But inside the Palais and the market tents, the conversation over artificial intelli

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