This new indie film about an AI startup founder and his family feels less like sci-fi by the day

"Anna by the Window" is a film co-directed by filmmakers Myles Flusser and James Hyland. BaggySuit

From tech behemoths scrambling to replicate OpenAI's success with ChatGPT to Twitter rebranding to X under Elon Musk , Silicon Valley was undergoing an undeniable transformation in 2023.

Nearly 3,000 miles away in New York, two skeptical 20-somethings were trying to make sense of it all. So, they made a film.

"It was very personal," James Hyland, 25, told Business Insider. "We wanted to put something together that spoke to the things we were going through and what the world was like. That ended up being artificial intelligence and technological alienation."

Hyland and Myles Flusser created "Anna by the Window," a coming-of-age film exploring grief and how technology can stifle human connection in the era of generative AI.…