U nder a white marquee on Cannes’ Croisette beach, with the Mediterranean glistening behind him and superyachts drifting across the horizon, the director Darren Aronofsky addressed an audience of executives and tech evangelists gathered for an “AI for Talent” summit. “There’s so much pushback against AI,” said Aronofsky, who has faced criticism over his embrace of generative AI projects though his new studio, Primordial Soup, at a time when artificial intelligence has become one of the film industry’s most divisive fault lines. Darren Aronofsky: ‘AI is not impersonating a person, it’s actually a tool.’ Photograph: Teresa Suárez/EPA “AI is a terrible word, because it’s a catchphrase for so many different things,” continued the director of Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, and Black Swan. “The thing we deal with when we’re talking to Chat GPT about the weather, or how to spend three days in Cannes, is very different to the AI we’re using to generate images.…