Leonardo DiCaprio sat down with Time magazine, which has named the Oscar winner its entertainer of the year, to discuss what the future of Hollywood looks like with the advancement of AI. While DiCaprio “mourns the fact that talented and experienced people could lose their jobs” because of AI, he also believes AI is incapable of having humanity and thus can’t be “authentically” considered art.
The actor explained:
“It could be an enhancement tool for a young filmmaker to do something we’ve never seen before. I think anything that is going to be authentically thought of as art has to come from the human being. Otherwise — haven’t you heard these songs that are mashups that are just absolutely brilliant and you go, ‘Oh my God, this is Michael Jackson doing the Weeknd,’ or ‘This is funk from the A Tribe Called Quest song “Bonita Applebum,” done in, you know, a sort of Al Green soul-song voice, and it’s brilliant.’ And you go, ‘Cool.’ But then it gets its 15 minutes of fame and it just dissipates into the ether of other internet junk. There’s no anchoring to it. There’s no humanity to it, as brilliant as it is.”
Academy Award winning director Guillermo del Toro told NPR recently that he’d rather die than have to use AI in his movies.
“AI, particularly generative AI — I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I’m 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. … The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I’d rather die.’”
James Cameron recently told ComicBook that he banned the use of generative AI when making his Avatar sequels, explaining: “We honor and celebrate actors. We don’t replace actors.”
Emma Thompson was irate during an appearance on The Late Show in October when host Stephen Colbert asked about her feelings regarding “the coming AI revolution” in Hollywood. Thompson, an Oscar-winning screenwriter thanks to Sense & Sensibility, explained her anger when it comes to AI chatbots asking to rewrite her work.
“Intense irritation. I cannot begin to tell you. Because I write longhand on a pad, old script actually, because I believe that there is a connection between the brain and the hand. So it’s very important to me. And then when I’ve written something, I will put it into a Word document. And recently, the Word document is constantly saying, ‘Would you like me to rewrite that for you?’ And so I end up just saying, ’I don’t need you to rewrite what I’ve just written, will you fuck off?! Just fuck off!’ I’m so annoyed.”
I totally agree with all these sentiments. I hate it when I’m browsing social media and I see AI videos in my feed. They play out scenarios that could have been cool if they were real, but I lose all interest when I realize they’re fake. It’s just not interesting to see AI pretending to be real when humans and animals are so fascinating and endlessly full of stories and originality.
via: Variety
