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Open Gardens' Ben Odell's TAKEOVER #16 of HopeForFilm

Intro:

I write a Substack called Open Gardens. The name comes from something a professor said during a course I took at Berkeley a few years ago. He asked what worried us about AI and our industries. I told him I was a film and TV producer, and my concern was this: social media already delivers content straight to the audience—AI will only amplify the vo…