Ashton Kutcher blasted for saying AI could be used in Hollywood

NY Post ^ | 6/07/24 | Johnny Oleksinski

[Libloather]

Some social media users are questioning AI — Ashton’s intelligence.

“That ’70s Show” actor Ashton Kutcher got a walloping on X, the platform formally known as Twitter, after he appeared to endorse artificial intelligence as an innovative — and cheaper — tool for moviemaking.

During a chat with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt in Los Angeles, Kutcher sang the praises of Sora, OpenAI’s generative video tool, Variety reported.

“I have a beta version of it and it’s pretty amazing,” Kutcher, 46, said.

“You can generate any footage that you want. You can create good 10-, 15-second videos that look very real. It still makes mistakes. It still doesn’t quite understand physics.

**SNIP**

But the actor really put his foot in his mouth with a later comment.

“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?” he asked.

“To go out and shoot it would cost you thousands of dollars,” Kutcher said. “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].”

Users on X were infuriated by the remarks.

**SNIP**

“Imagine being Ashton Kutcher stepping onto a film set now, after coming out and advocating for all those crew people to lose their jobs and f–---- starve. Gutsy choice, bud,” added @jfiliatrault.

[Libloather]

It's still all about the Benjamins. Sounds like it'll be one big cartoon or video game. The amount of global warming destruction would end up being near zero with the new technology so leftists will have to give AI two thumbs up.

[glorgau]

Using AI to generate shots in inevitable. The economics will dictate it.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Why pay less to make a movie without actors and elaborate sets? Because actors like getting paid. Set designers like getting paid. Directors like getting paid. They all like to get paid.

[9YearLurker]

But Hollywood people are special; AI can’t be used to replace *their* jobs!

[Bernard]

AI doing CGI. The machines will do all the work, but when do the machines build entertainment that they like, and not what people want?

More importantly,

1. Who does Alec Baldwin get to shoot?

2. Will the CGI Robert DeNiro still wear elevator shoes?

[no-to-illegals]

Maybe am blind but I believe computer generated images of people are already being used or my eyes are playing tricks on me. Am Seeing computer generated images mostly in commercials, at the present.
Maybe I’m going blind ?

[Islander7]

They can learn to code.

[econjack]

Those who are complaining sound a lot like the people who shoveled coal into the fire boxes of steam locomotives: they are no longer needed because the trains run on diesel fuel but think they should still keep their jobs. Wrong! It’s the market telling them their skill set is no longer in demand.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

The DemoMarxist Hollyweirds are feeling very threatened by Ai because it has the potential to replace them and everything about movie making. I saw sample videos and it’s amazing, it’s very hard to tell the people are computer generated so imagine what it will be capable of in the future. Oh no! No more need for a Robert DeNiro! All the time I see new advancements like this one.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-385AT4A5Wo&ab_channel=MattVidProAI

This one is great, Greta Thunberg Oil company lol lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTkhB4VTm1E&ab_channel=ChristheCreator

[Pilsner]

AI The Road Warrior as 1950s Super Panavision film.

AI Bat Man as 1950s Super Panavision film.

AI Robocop as 1950s Super Panavision film.

[odawg]

I don’t understand what the controversy is. Hollywood has been using CGI for a long time in Hollywood. They look fake, but evidently no one cares. It would be impossible to make a Star War movie without it.

In the movies, people are seen entering mansions, but when the camera shoots them from the inside entering, that is a movie set in some warehouse. Movies are all fake, always have been. The actors, script, plot, etc., make the movie.

[bert]

Actually many if not most railroads are now electric. There ase in Europe where rail travel is very common

[DCPatriot]

WAIT!! WHAT?? Godzilla isn’t real???

[Mr. Jeeves]

Ashton doesn’t know yet that there are truths one is not allowed to speak? :)

Everything he says will happen - and very quickly. He is just not allowed to talk about it.

[rlmorel]

"But Hollywood people are special; AI can’t be used to replace *their* jobs!"

There you go...I was trying to think about some snarky, humorous way to put it, and...

You beat me to it!

[Liz]

Film crew setting up the scene to film Godzilla in action.

[econjack]

Most in the US are diesel. The few electric lines are mostly urban commuter trains. Freight distribution is by diesel.

[SauronOfMordor]

The real issue that terrifies Hollywood, is the emergence of the ability of regular people, not part of the Hollywood system, making movies cheaply, which rely on stories that people like. Then distributing on YouTube or X or some other streaming service.

Hollywood is a bunch of dinosaurs waiting for an asteroid.

[9YearLurker]

Snark feels so good!

[Dr. Sivana]

Those who are complaining sound a lot like the people who shoveled coal into the fire boxes of steam locomotives: they are no longer needed because the trains run on diesel fuel but think they should still keep their jobs.

When I ran for State Rep in Connecticut in 1996, a friend of my brother's asked me if I would protect the lightly used New London Metro North train line on which he worked. I told him "No, but you can drive the van that takes its place." He didn't like the answer, but he didn't deny that would work.