Did a 54-Year-Old Nonprofit Worker Just Use AI to Become the Next Charlie Kaufman? asks Steven Zeitchik at Hollywood Reporter, probably not disproving Betteridge’s Law of Headlines. But anyway:

The eight-minute short — in which a Parisian man with a facial disfigurement named Marcel dances hopefully in his apartment every night awaiting a non-existent companion — is in fact the brainchild of one Robert Gaudette. Emphasis on the brain. Or, more accurately, the intelligence. Of the artificial kind.

And emphasis on the one.

Gaudette used a series of AI tools — and not a single actor, producer or crew member — to tell his tender story of a man who, for all his travails, hardly wallows in his station. To the contrary: he keeps an irrepressible optimism that we could all use in these days of, well, AI film takeovers. Watching the movie and Marcel’s fragile belief in a world so callous is to feel a surge of possibility for humanity. It is also to feel a much more complicated set of emotions about our AI creative future. (Source)

Great, just great. That's great. There's an irony in picking Kaufman as a comparison, given his public comments on AI, and his Frank or Francis, written in 2010, which includes an AI named Richard's Head (ahem) that can spit out screenplays.