Los Angeles – Actress Jenna Ortega voiced her worries about artificial intelligence taking over film and television, hoping audiences will grow tired of the trend and yearn for more authentic human storytelling.
During the jury press meet at the Marrakech Film Festival, the Wednesday star said, “There is really charm in the human condition… As humans, we have a tendency to always, when you look back at history, take things too far. It’s very easy to be terrified. I know I am in times like this of deep uncertainty. And it kind of feels like we’ve opened up a Pandora’s Box.”
Adding to her point, Ortega noted, “There’s certain things that AI just isn’t able to replicate, and yes, there’s beautiful, difficult mistakes, and a computer can’t do that. A computer has no soul, and it’s nothing that we would ever be able to resonate with or relate to.”
She also shared her vision: “I don’t want to assume for the audience, but I would hope it gets to a point where it becomes some sort of mental junk food, AI and looking at the screen, and then suddenly we all feel sick, and we don’t know why, and then that one independent filmmaker in their backyard comes out with something, and it releases this new excitement again.”
Elsewhere, “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho sees benefits in AI but would still want to “destroy” the technology because of the threat it poses to creativity, according to femalefirst.co.uk. He stated, “My official answer is, AI is good because it’s the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I’m going to organise a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI.”
Celine Song, the mind behind Past Lives, expressed agreement with Guillermo del Toro after the filmmaker pledged to avoid AI in his work. She replied, “To quote Guillermo del Toro, who will be here at this festival, ‘ AI’… the way that it is completely destroyed the planet… the way that it is completely colonising our minds in the way that we encounter images and sound, I’m very concerned about it.
“The number one thing that we’re here to defend as artists is humanity… We’re here not to think about makes human life easy, what makes it convenient, but what it’s like to actually live.
“Severance is one of the best documents about the way that AI is completely taking over what is beautifully difficult about human life… the thing I’m actually more worried about than anything, is the way that it is trying to encroach on what makes our lives very, very beautiful and very, very hard, and what makes living worth doing.”
When explaining her collaboration with her cinematographer, Song emphasized the human element. “When I work with my cinematographer, it might be easy to think that cinematography is a lot of images, but working with my cinematographer, who’s a human being, a grown man, I get to have his whole life. The images that he makes are not just things that you can just pin into an algorithm and pop back.
“The images that I make with my cinematographer is what I get by having his entire life’s work and his entire existence as a human being, the difficulties, the failures, everything… so deeply and… not very respectfully AI.”
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