Ashton Kutcher has been slammed after praising the potential use of AI in movies and sharing an optimistic view of the future. The Jobs actor – who played late Apple chief Steve Jobs in the 2013 biopic – suggested artificial intelligence could replace the entire cinema industry , with cost savings making it an irresistible prospect, but film fans are terrified by the prospect. ‘You’ll be able to render a whole movie,’ the 46-year-old star told former Google CEO Eric Schmidt during a discussion panel in LA.
‘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: ‘Instead of watching some movie that somebody else came up with, I can just generate and then watch my own movie.’ The star even suggested there would be no point in making movies and TV shows in the traditional way once AI was fully operational, as it would be cheaper than doing things for real.
‘Why would you go out and shoot an establishing shot of a house in a television show when you could just create the establishing shot for $100? To go out and shoot it would cost you thousands of dollars,’ he argued. ‘Action scenes of me jumping off of this building, you don’t have to have a stunt person go do it, you could just go do it [with AI].’ Ashton was singing the praises of ChatGPT company OpenAI ’s generative video tool Sora, insisting while it ‘still makes mistakes.
