Actor Nicholas Cage offered up his thoughts on the use of artificial intelligence in film.
While AI-generated words, images, and productions are the center of heated debates concerning art and entertainment, Cage views it from a technological side.
He discussed the subject with Yahoo!Entertainment while answering questions about his Superman role from both the Tim Burton Superman movie that never was and his cameo in “The Flash.”
Cage said, “I would be very unhappy if people were taking my art … and appropriating them.”
“AI is a nightmare to me. It’s inhumane. You can’t get more inhumane than artificial intelligence,” he added.
Burton criticized Andy Muschietti’s June release for including a sequence with Cage suited-up as the Man of Steel among the movie’s many multiverse cameos.
Burton decried AI-generated content in September as well. He told The Independent, “I can’t describe the feeling it gives you. It reminded me of when other cultures say, ‘Don’t take my picture because it is taking away your soul.’”
He went on, “What it does is it sucks something from you. It takes something from your soul or psyche; that is very disturbing, especially if it has to do with you.”
“It’s like a robot taking your humanity, your soul,” he concluded.
In May, the Writer’s Guild of America went on strike against AI-generated content. It took all summer before studios would offer a deal to prohibit scripts written or rewritten by AI, per Wired.
In September, a group of authors based in the United States filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging the misuse of their content for ChatGPT, via Reuters.
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Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon is included in the lawsuit, which states he and the other authors included did not permit to have their work used for ChatGPA. They are seeking damages.
Another lawsuit filed by visual artists is also moving forward. Reuters reported that just Monday, a California judge dismissed claims that Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt misused copyrighted material, but the artists involved have been granted the opportunity to file an amended complaint against text-to-image technology purposes.