Pirates of the Caribbean Director on Why AI Can’t Replace Real Filmmakers
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, the new film from Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski, revolves around pressing questions about AI and its impact on humanity. In a recent interview, Verbinski shared his opinion on AI’s potential to alter the future of filmmaking.
Gore Verbinski explains why AI won’t replace human filmmakers anytime soon
In an interview with Discussing Film, Gore Verbinski acknowledged AI’s potential to make films according to commands. However, the Pirates of the Caribbean director also highlighted the difference between AI-generated content and authentic filmmaking. He stressed that while AI relied on algorithms, real filmmakers frequently worked to create something different each time.
Verbinski added that AI would get better at responding to human commands. However, he emphasized that its core strength — the process of absorbing and producing information at a rapid rate — is its fatal flaw. “It’s ingesting all this stuff off the internet, and spitting it out so exponentially fast,” he shared. “So now, it’s starting to drink its own piss.”
This isn’t the first time Verbinski has shared his perspective on AI and its impact. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he expressed his frustration with AI not handling things humans didn’t want to or couldn’t do, but instead entrenching itself in activities Verbinski believed were essential to humans.
“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? I don’t want it to breathe or f—k for me; I want it to solve cancer,” he stated. “Send some s—t through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the s—t we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?”
The Rango director also spoke about some of his concerns over the future of AI, saying, “There’s no sense of it being born free of our s—t. If man was made in God’s image and Gods need to be worshiped, is that why there’s so many narcissists in the world? Did we inherit that? Is that woven into our DNA? So all these executives who are manipulating AI’s core code at the moment it’s becoming potentially sentient, what is that going to do to it?”
Source: Comingsoon.net