New Hugh Grant movie ‘Heretic’ slams AI, director warns ‘it might kill us all’

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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. Decisions are made for the bottom line and not for the good of the artistic process.”Woods had a final comment on AI, calling it “an amazing technology.”“Beautiful things will come of it, and it’s jaw-dropping.

What is being created with generative AI and video … it’s amazing we could create that technology. Now let’s bury it underground with nuclear warheads, cause it might kill us all.”His co-director, Beck, told Variety they were happy A24 allowed them to include the note in the credits.“As far as we’re aware, they’re absolutely fine with it,” he said, adding that the studio is “incredibly artist-friendly.”“We are in a time where I feel like, creatively, we’re in one of the big ethical battles, and the race is already ahead of us,” Beck added.“The importance is to have these conversations before they force things in, just because it makes sense from.