2024/05/21

David Cronenberg Warns Generative AI Is Like “Nuclear Fission” for Filmmakers

“It’s like nuclear fission, it’s ferocious and terrifying, and it’s also incredibly useful. So, what do we do? I don’t know. I have no idea.”
– Director David Cronenberg, making an explosive analogy to describe the promise and peril of generative AI in filmmaking. “You can imagine a screenwriter sitting there, writing the movie; if they can write it in enough detail, the movie will appear. The whole idea of actors and production will be gone,” the Canadian body horror legend notes, imagining movies made without humans, cameras, or sets.
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