Something is pressing on the films and series and
songs that influence how we see the world. Not a rupture, more like a quiet
pressure applied from inside, at every stage of the process: how scripts get
developed, how images get made, how finished work finds its audience, and how
that audience comes to feel that certain stories are simply the ones available
to them. Artificial intelligence is now present at all of those points. What it
does there, and what it costs, is what this issue examines.
