By Kayla DeKraker
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has thoughts about the growing problem of AI in Hollywood.
“It could be an enhancement tool for a young filmmaker to do something we’ve never seen before,” he told Time in a recent interview.
“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, ‘… 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, DiCaprio explained that no matter how “cool” AI can be, “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.”
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The actor isn’t the only one with concerns over AI. Many celebrities have spoken out about its’ dangers and stealing the humanness of others.
James Cameron, who directed the TITANIC which DiCaprio starred in, recently expressed his concerns about AI in an interview with CBS.
“For years, there was this sense that, ‘Oh, they’re doing something strange with computers and they’re replacing actors,’ when in fact, once you really drill down and you see what we’re doing, it’s a celebration of the actor-director moment,” he told the outlet.
He added, “Now, go to the other end of the spectrum, and you’ve got generative AI, where they can make up a character. They can make up an actor. They can make up a performance from scratch with a text prompt. It’s like, no. That’s horrifying to me. That’s the opposite. That’s exactly what we’re not doing.”
Cameron isn’t wrong.
Recently, an AI “actor” name Tilly Norwood came onto the scene, enraging those in the film industry. The AI character was a realistic looking creation of Dutch inventors, and concerningly the “actor” was permitted to talk and apply to talent agencies.
In a statement, SAG-AFTRA said that Tilly Norwood “is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers,” adding “It has no life experience to draw from, no emotion and, from what we’ve seen, audiences aren’t interested in watching computer-generated content untethered from the human experience.”
Despite the backlash, Tilly’s creators defended it, calling it a work of “art.”
Is AI going to far? Time will tell, but the fact the actors like DiCaprio and Cameron are concerned should worry us all.
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