AI Execs Say The Technology Should Not Be Feared And Urge Filmmakers To “Unlearn” Old Production Models & “Work In New Ways” — Filmart 

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“I don’t want to use AI to replace artists, I want to use AI to create content,” Lee Sangwook, Head of the AI Content Lab at MBC C&I, said this afternoon during an AI-focused panel at Filmart in Hong Kong. 

Sangwook was joined on the panel by Yuhang Cheng, COO at Midjourney China Lab; Fu Binxing, CEO of China Huace Film & TV; Ricky Lau, AI Specialist Lead at Google Hong Kong; and Yunan Zhang, Vice President at MiniMax. 

The panel is just one of many AI-focused sessions at this year’s Filmart. The disruptive technology is a hot topic here in Hong Kong. But this afternoon’s panelists were less concerned about the challenges AI could pose and instead extolled the benefits it could provide artists. 

Yuhang told the crowd in Hong Kong that the “fear” around AI is “based on the uncertainty of creation.” Yuhang continued to

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