{"id":3026,"date":"2025-07-19T08:49:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T08:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/netflix-is-already-using-generative-ai-in-its-original-shows\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T08:49:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T08:49:51","slug":"netflix-is-already-using-generative-ai-in-its-original-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/netflix-is-already-using-generative-ai-in-its-original-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix is already using generative AI in its original shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Netflix admitted during its earnings call on Thursday that it used generative AI to create VFX in <em>The Eternaut<\/em>, a Netflix original from Argentina that was released in April 2025. The company&rsquo;s co-CEO Ted Sarandos said that generative AI was specifically used for a VFX shot in the post-apocalyptic drama, but the move is one of several ways Netflix is embracing AI.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sarandos, the creators of <em>The Eternaut<\/em> wanted to include a shot of building collapsing in Buenos Aires, and rather than contract a studio of visual effects artists to create the footage, Netflix used generative AI to create it. &ldquo;Using AI powered tools, they were able to achieve an amazing result with remarkable speed,&rdquo; Sarandos shared during the earnings call. &ldquo;In fact, that VFX sequence was completed 10 times faster than it could have been completed with&hellip; traditional VFX tools and workflows.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The shot &ldquo;just wouldn&rsquo;t have been feasible for a show on that budget,&rdquo; Sarandos says, as someone with some input on the show&rsquo;s budget. The executive says that <em>The Eternaut <\/em>features &ldquo;the very first Gen AI final footage to appear on screen in a Netflix original series or film.&rdquo; Clearly, the show is also a prototype for how Netflix can avoid costs it doesn&rsquo;t want to swallow in the future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"caas-da \">\n<div data-wf-benji-page-context='{\"pageUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entertainment\/streaming\/netflix-is-already-using-generative-ai-in-its-original-shows-201209502.html\",\"spaceid\":\"1197802876\",\"site\":\"engadget\",\"hashtag\":\"news;streaming;entertainment;generative-ai;netflix;media;entertainment\",\"lmsid\":\"a0V0W00000HOQu8UAH\",\"lpstaid\":\"fe37d79f-bb23-4346-85eb-e7754accabf8\",\"pt\":\"content\",\"pd\":\"non_modal\",\"pct\":\"story\"}' data-wf-benji-wafer-config=\"{}\" data-wf-benji-config='{\"positions\":{\"LREC1-fe37d79f-bb23-4346-85eb-e7754accabf81752914990127\":{\"id\":\"LREC1-fe37d79f-bb23-4346-85eb-e7754accabf81752914990127\",\"region\":\"index\",\"size\":[[300,250]],\"kvs\":{\"loc\":\"mid_center\"},\"path\":\"\/22888152279\/us\/eng\/ros\/dt\/us_eng_ros_dt_mid_center\"}}}' id=\"sda-LREC1-fe37d79f-bb23-4346-85eb-e7754accabf81752914990127\" class=\"wafer-benji caas-sda-benji-ad caas-sda-gam-container caas-sda-gam-container-center\" data-wf-trigger=\"onLoad\" data-wf-margin=\"100 0\">\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<div id=\"LREC1-fe37d79f-bb23-4346-85eb-e7754accabf81752914990127\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Workers in the entertainment industry have not taken kindly to the use of generative AI. Labor strikes &mdash; including the recently resolved SAG-AFTRA video game strike &mdash; have made securing protections against AI a central issue. The Oscar-nominated film <em>The Brutalist<\/em> came under fire in 2024 for using AI tools during production. Beyond that, whether generative AI models were illegally trained on copyrighted material is still an open question.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Netflix plans to use generative AI to create ads for its ad-support Netflix subscription, and the company is reportedly testing a new search feature powered by OpenAI models. Using generative AI in production might seem par for the course for a company that&rsquo;s already invested, but it could help to normalize a technology that many creatives remain actively against.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Netflix is already using generative AI in its original shows<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix admitted during its earnings call on Thursday that it used generative AI to create VFX in The Eternaut, a Netflix original from Argentina that was released in April 2025. The company&rsquo;s co-CEO Ted Sarandos said that generative AI was specifically used for a VFX shot in the post-apocalyptic drama, but the move is one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/netflix-is-already-using-generative-ai-in-its-original-shows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Netflix is already using generative AI in its original shows&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}