Steven Soderbergh used Meta AI in a haunting new John Lennon doc — and Cannes critics

The director’s new film, “John Lennon: The Last Interview,” uses a never-before-released radio interview Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded inside the Dakota Apartments on December 8, 1980, the same day Lennon was killed. By the end of its premiere, though, much of the discussion had shifted away from John Lennon entirely and toward artificial intelligence.

The documentary mixes archival photographs, audio recordings, and experimental visuals to recreate the atmosphere of the conversation. What has sparked immediate controversy is that Meta AI helped generate some of the visuals.

Soderbergh openly acknowledged that partnering with Meta on an AI-assisted film was guaranteed to irritate people. And critics at the festival largely targeted the movie’s surreal visual sequences, which appear during moments where Lennon drifts into abstract discussions about creativity, identity, and human behavior. Rather than attempting realistic recreations, the film cuts to dreamlike imagery, including flowers dissolving into geometric patterns, shifting pools of light, and painterly moving textures that feel closer to an experimental art installation than a traditional music documentary.

Source: MSN

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