Leonardo DiCaprio joins the chorus of Hollywood stars who have expressed their concerns and hopes about the age of artificial intelligence.
On the day of his appointment as TimeArtist of the Year and Golden Globe nomination for Paul Thomas Anderson One battle after anotherthe Oscar-winning actor acknowledged to the magazine how AI can influence cinema, for better or worse.
“It could be an enhancement tool for a young filmmaker to do something we haven’t seen before,” he said. “I think anything that is authentically considered 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, that’s Michael Jackson doing The Weeknd,’ or ‘That’s some funk from A Tribe Called Quest’s song ‘Bonita Applebum,’ done with, you know, Al’s kind of soul song vocals. Green, and it’s great.’ And you say, “Cool.” But then it gets its 15 minutes of fame and dissipates into the ether of other internet garbage. There’s no anchor there. There is no humanity in it, no matter how brilliant it is.
Additionally, he reflected on how cinema might change in the years to come, adding, “I was just thinking the other day, I wonder what the next most shocking thing in cinema will be. Because so many things have been done that have shaken things up, and some of these directors are so talented right now and doing so many different things at the same time: what will be the next thing that will shake people up and shock people in cinema?”
While entertainment industry stalwarts believe AI could potentially encroach on their livelihoods, many high-profile professionals – among them Guillermo del Toro, Céline Song and Denis Villeneuve – have criticized the technology and said it has no place in the filmmaking process. Meanwhile, some, like James Cameron, have recognized how technology can make technical aspects such as visual effects “cheaper”; However, like DiCaprio, he noted that generative AI could not replace human-made art.
“What generative AI can’t do is create something new that’s never been seen before. If you think about it, models are a magic trick, what they can do is quite astonishing,” the professor said. Avatar said the director. “But the models are trained on everything that’s ever been done before that; they can’t be trained on what’s never been done. So you’ll innately see, essentially, all of the art and human experience put into a blender, and you’ll get something that’s sort of an average of that. So what you can’t have is each screenwriter’s unique lived experience and their quirks; you won’t find the idiosyncrasies of any particular actor. “
