Director Guillermo del Toro is raising the alarm about artificial intelligence's threat to cinema itself. According to Variety, del Toro warns that the film industry is approaching what he calls 'image illiteracy'—a crisis where the visual language of cinema risks being lost as AI and corporate consolidation reshape creative industries. Del Toro's concern centers on how generative AI and financial pressures are reshaping not just how films are made, but whether future creators will even understand the fundamentals of visual storytelling. It's a cautionary note from one of cinema's most visionary directors about the stakes of letting technology and business consolidation remake an art form without interrogating what might be lost.

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