Ashton Kutcher wants to use AI to make movies – and people are not happy
nme.comAI to create films and television shows.The Two And A Half Men and That ‘70s Show star was speaking to Google CEO Eric Schmidt in Los Angeles this week when he extolled the virtues of OpenAI’s generative video too Sora.“I have a beta version of it and it’s pretty amazing,” he said (via Variety). “You can generate any footage that you want.
You can create good 10, 15-second videos that look very real. It still doesn’t quite understand physics…But if you look at the generation of this that existed one year ago as compared ot Sora, it’s leaps and bounds,”“In fact, there’s footage in it that I would say you could easily use in a major motion picture or a television show.”“You’ll just come up with an idea for a movie, then it will write the script, then you’ll input the script into the video generator and it will generate the movie,” he added.He went on to suggest that eventually there would be no point in making films in the traditional way once AI develops fully, and pointed out that it will also save a lot of money.The comments have seen a backlash from creatives in Hollywood.
Former Rick & Morty writer Caitie Delaney hit back, saying: “When you take ANY humans off of a collaborative and creative pursuit you literally lose the humanity.
A hollow, dumbass, pointless shell. TV will have the same artistic merit as dish soap.”The writer Ash Laser added: “It’s such an ignorant, shortsighted, selfcentered, shortterm cost vs longterm gain mindset.
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