Posted on 06/09/2024 5:29:35 AM PDT by 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.
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Well. I hate to agree with a Hollyweirdo, but he's right.
It does have value to apply snark when the subject is self-centered egotists who dimly recognize there might be a threat to their privileged livelihoods, in much the same way dinosaurs gazed at that thing in the sky hurtling towards Earth millions of years ago!
WAIT!! WHAT?? Godzilla isn’t real???
RELAX!! Godzilla is very real. It’s Mothra that was fake.
Laz, your special AI skills are needed in aisle 2.
I had no idea there were ever any Japanese who were THAT tall.
Technological advances lead to increases in productivity of labor, which leads to economic progress, which leads to increased prosperity for the whole in the long run. This has been true empirically for the last 250 years in America.
Reminds me of that WW2 John Wayne film about PT boats, “They Were Expendable.”
Yep. Actors going the way of soda jerks and buggy whip makers.
Won’t miss them.
But will AI stand in front of a courthouse in Manhattan in platform shoes whining about “justice”?
Wait a minute! There were no giant japanese people in gorilla movies!
Hollywood is dead.
LoL.......guess you better think again......lol.
*gasp* Man In Suit!!
So, in one aspect, Big G is very real!
Well.......the Japanese can get pretty big.....but not THAT big.
In your dreams, sweetheart.
I know...it was an attempt at humor. Hee hee.
But AI will replace the actors and much of the scrips. There really are a limited number of plots.
Cute.
He’s right!! CGI is almost at the point where you could do movies with actors\actresses from Tom Mix, Mary Pickford to Ashton Kutcher and all entertainment egomaniacs in between. Computer generated actors\actresses don’t complain, don’t do drugs\alcohol, make ridiculous demands, get pregnant, get others pregnant, etc. Pure $$ gravy for producers\directors. Goes the same for writers too. The proverbial gaggle of monkeys at a gaggle of typewriters could write better movie scripts then what are written now. I know AI could do better!
Now if we can get AI and CGI to replace political “talking heads”!
Nice find.
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