Amazon's dumping of Luca Guadagnino's OpenAI film reveals Hollywood's corporate cowardice

Short answer: there's no confirmed evidence that Amazon 'killed it to protect Sam Altman's ego,' but the timing strongly suggests something fishy.

If there's one thing that Amazon dumping Luca Guadagnino's movie about Sam Altman and OpenAI indicates, it's that Hollywood's coziness with Big Tech puts a modern spin on a classic problem: cowardice.

The decision to kill Artificial wasn't about art. It was about protecting a business relationship.

Hollywood has always been willing to sell out its artists for access to power. The only difference now is that the power comes in the form of cloud computing contracts rather than studio backlots.

What's truly alarming is not that one movie got shelved, but what it signals about the future of films that dare to critique the tech industry.