Nicolas Cage is urging Hollywood to not let synthetic intelligence destroy the “truth of art.”
The “Dream Scenario” star acquired a Saturn Award on Sunday for his efficiency within the satirical drama and delivered an impassioned acceptance speech after thanking writer-director Kristoffer Borgli for creating the “disturbing but hilarious” world of the 2023 movie.
“But there is another world that is also disturbing me,” Cage mentioned on the podium, per Selection. “It’s happening right now around all of us: the new AI world. I am a big believer in not letting robots dream for us. Robots cannot reflect the human condition for us.”
“That is a dead end if an actor lets one AI robot manipulate his or her performance even a little bit, an inch will eventually become a mile and all integrity, purity and truth of art will be replaced by financial interests only,” he continued. “We can’t let that happen.”
These phrases arrived shortly after Paul McCartney and Elton John criticized a U.Okay. copyright regulation that will permit firms to make use of their music to coach AI fashions, or in John’s phrases to the Sunday Instances, to “ride roughshod” over legal guidelines that “protect artists’ livelihoods.”
The speech additionally adopted substantial backlash towards director Brady Corbet, who lately admitted utilizing AI to refine Adrien Brody’s Hungarian dialogue in “The Brutalist.” The movie was lately nominated for 10 Oscars, together with a greatest actor nod for Brody.
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Cage beforehand confessed he’s “terrified” that synthetic intelligence might “steal” his likeness after he dies, and argued Sunday that the implications of standardizing its use to change efficiency or exchange artists can be devastating for human tradition fully.
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“The job of all art in my view, film performance included, is to hold a mirror to the external and internal stories of the human condition through the very human thoughtful and emotional process of recreation,” mentioned Cage, per Selection. “A robot can’t do that.”
“If we let robots do that, it will lack all heart and … turn to mush,” he added. “There will be no human response to life as we know it. It will be life as robots tell us to know it. I say, protect yourselves from AI interfering with your authentic and honest expressions.”
