artificial intelligence

High-demand for celebrity memoirs has led to a cottage industry for talented writers looking to make money. Now, as AI raises new questions about originality and disclosure, VF goes inside the business of ghostwriting to see how the new technology is changing the nature of the industry.

Mayor Mamdani, Adam Sandler, Pedro Pascal, and more famous men are now incredibly jacked, at least according to anonymous X users.

When the author and YouTuber admitted to using AI to make more creative projects, fans revolted. His apology looks like it could win them back.

One intrepid reporter journeys into the nondescript building where Hollywood’s biggest stars can be digitally cloned. What comes next for those replicas is anyone’s guess.

The engineers who wreaked havoc on Washington are ready for their second act.

It took only $2,000, less than two months, and two Iranian brothers to make a resistance film that may ruffle feathers. “The disruption AI is going to cause is obviously something that is not easy to digest,” says producer Tom Rogers.

The pontiff delivered a fiery screed against AI—as Olah, the company’s interpretability research lead, sat just a few seats away.

Everyone from big-name designers to multibrand department stores are looking for ways to use AI.

AI-generated “digital twins” of influencers and celebrities are popping up all over the place, and managing this revolution is a major priority for talent agencies like CAA. But will audiences truly respond to a digital facsimile of the star they think they know and love?

Is OpenAI’s chief futurist prepping for a major breakthrough or just another hype cycle?

Daniel Roher calls himself an “apocaloptimist,” meaning he’s supposedly bullish about the AI revolution. But in conversation, those positive vibes aren’t always easy to come by.

Hollywood is bracing for layoffs and big creative changes if the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery mega-merger goes through.

The public beef between OpenAI and Anthropic is shaping up to be the biggest distraction from the Big Game since Kendrick Lamar ended Drake.

The Grammy winner can’t prove the virtual singer was trained on her music or image—but “It’s not ideal,” says Monét.

Either the bubble bursts and wipes out a huge sector of the economy, or AI replaces human workers across industries.

The Taxi Driver screenwriter turned social media icon on his viral film criticism, Pauline Kael’s rock-bottom moment, and why he isn’t afraid of the future: “I think we’re only two years away from the first AI feature.”

As Lee bids farewell to the longest role of her career, she gets emotional with Vanity Fair about the state of the world as reflected on the series: “How do we reconcile all of our hopes and dreams from just a few years ago?”

In an Instagram story, filmmaker Zelda Williams condemned videos of her late father made with artificial intelligence. “It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want,” she wrote.

Two years after AI protections ruled the Hollywood labor strikes, an emerging production studio is introducing a computer-made movie star to rival Scarlett Johansson. And SAG-AFTRA isn’t happy.

Creatives, executives, and legal scholars are all debating what “intellectual property” even means in the age of machine intelligence: “I’m not seeing a huge amount of clarity.”