I don’t know if the same thing happens to you, but my Instagram Reels tab is crawling with people promising that I’m going to get rich if I cheat at solitaire. Make videos using ChatGPT, make books using ChatGPT, “write” up to 10 novels a day and publish them on Amazon… Anyway, peak desperation. However, despite the success (like it or not) of many of these projects made with AI, there are also people who can’t stand the sight of them. One of those people is Andrew Garfield.
Very, very artificial
The actor, who’s burst into the Oscar race out of nowhere after Artificial charmed critics and audiences, says that after researching Sam Altman to play him, he hasn’t felt any more desire to play around with AI. “It scared me a little. I felt distrust toward the technology. It seems the people encouraging us to use it don’t know exactly what it’s capable of. Personally, it seems a little irresponsible to me”.
Although more and more people are dependent on ChatGPT to do literally anything, Garfield has refused to use it any more: “Luckily, I don’t need ChatGPT in my life as much as other people in other industries. As an actor, I was using it as a kind of fancy Google for research. I know that’s not what it was made for”. You know what looks a lot like Google? Exactly: Google.
We all know Hollywood’s next strike will have AI at its center, but the actor says it won’t be that big a deal: “I don’t think actors are going to be rendered useless. The soul of humanity is the soul of humanity. And I think actors are some of the people who are going to have to keep humanity alive in all of us and in the stories we tell”. I honestly hope he’s right. I don’t know if I’d count on it, greed is awfully tempting.
