Hugh Grant movie slams AI; director warns 'it might kill us all'

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Hugh Grant’s new film, "Heretic," has an unexpected announcement about artificial intelligence in the final credits. Variety reported there is a message that says, "No generative AI was used in the making of this film." The film's directors, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, made their feelings about the technology clear in comments with the outlet. "We have no illusions that when people watch ‘Heretic’ they’re going to go, ‘Wait, did they use generative AI?'" Woods said. "It doesn’t feel like that at all, but it was important for us to put that out there because we think it’s something people need to start talking about." "Heretic" is not a special effects heavy film.

It focuses on Grant’s mysterious character trapping two young Mormon missionaries (Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East) in his home for a series of dangerous tests of faith.

Woods added that generative AI is "an algorithm jumbling a bunch of s--- together and then spitting it out as art. It’s not human, and it’s borderline theft on some level. "I think this idea that an algorithm can just scrape all of human history and art off the internet, repackage it, regurgitate it, spit it out and somebody else can use that to create profit … I don’t know why that’s legal. "It’s important for people to start talking about the need for human intersection in art, business and every facet of this life, because we’re on the precipice of every job on planet Earth being replaced overnight.

It’s going to happen so fast. And it’s easy for it to happen in the arts. We’re in a business that is exceptionally greedy.