Controversial Sam Altman biopic Artificial, directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Andrew Garfield, has to find a new distributor.
“In a statement first reported by Puck, Amazon said that it believes ‘that Artificial will be better served if it were released by a different studio and are working closely with the film-making team to find the film a new home’.
Amazon’s decision to leave the project comes in the wake of a significant partnership struck between Amazon and OpenAI, of which Altman is CEO. The deal will see Amazon – whose owner, Jeff Bezos, is friends with Altman – immediately invest $15bn in the company, ‘followed by another $35bn in the coming months when certain conditions are met,’ according to the artificial intelligence company’s website. This follows a $38bn cloud computing deal signed by the two companies last year.”
The film is expected to portray the mogul in an unflattering light.
ONTD, what have tech giants ruined for you lately?
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