Actress Demi Moore is facing backlash after stating artificial intelligence is here to stay in Hollywood.
During an appearance at the Cannes Film Festival, Moore urged the entertainment industry to stop “fighting” AI and learn to work with it.
“Against-ness breeds against-ness. AI is here, and so to fight it is to, in a sense, to fight something that is a battle that we will lose. So to find ways in which we can work with it, I think, is a more valuable path,” she said, according to Deadline. “Are we doing enough to protect ourselves? I don’t know … My inclination would be to say probably not.”
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Many opposed Moore’s words and accused her of surrendering the future of film-making to Silicon Valley and corporate tech interests.
“Demi Moore having the gall to speak this fascist propaganda of about it being useless to fight against AI, next to Park Chan-wook is wild to me if you understand anything about his work, and after her being in a film about how wealthy white men use women in the film industry,” one user wrote.
Another critic took issue with Moore treating AI as unavoidable rather than beneficial.
“Notice how they can never make an argument for why AI is good in itself, it’s always that it’s inevitable and we just have to accept that the future is slop,” the person posted.
A third claimed Moore was sounding more like a tech investor than an artist.
“She sounds like an investor not an artist. Entirely out of touch with technology and art. 90s movie stars had it easy and became rich and retreated from caring about the sustainability of the business they helped f— up,” the person wrote.
There were also those who agreed with Moore.
“AI is the future of film. Those who don’t adopt it will fall behind,” one supporter wrote.
Another wrote, “You can all be kneejerk against AI and still none of you can deliver the logical pathway against it. You aren’t magically changing the minds of millions of people using it by posting virtue signalling comments against it.”
“She’s correct. The genie isn’t going back in the lamp,” another posted.
The actress said there is only so much machined can do.
“There’s beautiful aspects of being able to utilize it,” Moore said, according to Deadline, “but the truth is, there really isn’t anything to fear, because what it can never replace is what true art comes from, which is not the physical. It comes from the soul.”
