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He added: “Making certain services free to access, even if they’re paid for elsewhere, adjusting benefit rates so that at least you ensure the lowest income households are adequately protected, or otherwise you’re looking at, sort of, trying to control costs in other ways such as rent control.”

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These productions have been sticking to romance or family drama to keep costs down as they need fewer visual effects. But now AI can “elevate low-budget productions into more ambitious genres such as sci-fi, period drama and, now, action”, Kwok says.