Is Hollywood Cooked?

Tom explains why people watch Non-Player Combat, his AI reality show where nobody is real, why AI is "excellent at everything except for taste", why he says the film jobs lost in recent years went with the streaming bubble rather than to AI, the messages AI filmmakers get from people who hate the work, and the year he thinks an all-AI film wins an Oscar.

Tom Paton directed ten independent feature films before founding AiMation Studios, an AI film and television studio. Its work includes Where the Robots Grow (2024), an AI-made feature released free on YouTube, and Non-Player Combat (2025), a reality series with an all-AI cast.