Ashton Kutcher blasted for ‘ignorant’ and terrifying breakdown of how AI will take over Hollywood-Alistair McGeorge-Entertainment – Metro

Ashton Kutcher has sparked fury with his comments about AI in films (Picture: Getty/David Swanson)

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.

The Two And A Half Men star thinks AI can help Hollywood (Picture: Jerod Harris/Getty Images)

He has opened up about OpenAI’s generative video tool (Picture: AP)

‘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’ and ‘doesn’t quite understand physics’, it’s possible to make ‘good 10, 15-second videos that look very real’.

‘If you look at the generation of this that existed one year ago as compared to Sora, it’s leaps and bounds,’ he said. ‘In fact, there’s footage in it that I would say you could easily use in a major motion picture or a television show.’

Ashton’s comments have caused a stir with writers (Picture: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

Not surprisingly, many cinema fans and people in the industry have fired back at his suggestion that AI could be used to such an extent.

Former Rick & Morty writer Caitie Delaney argued: ‘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’

And writer Ash Laser added on X: ‘It’s such an ignorant, shortsighted, selfcentered, shortterm cost vs longterm gain mindset. You’re training it to replace YOU. And your kid’s dreams.’

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