Yahoo Lifestyle Nicolas Cage Warns Of Dire Scenario Presented By AI: 'That Is A Dead End'
Nicolas Cage is urging Hollywood not to let artificial intelligence destroy the “truth of art.”
The “Dream Scenario” star received a Saturn Award on Sunday for his performance in the satirical drama and delivered an impassioned acceptance speech after thanking writer-director Kristoffer Borgli for creating the “disturbing but hilarious” world of the 2023 film.
“But there is another world that is also disturbing me,” Cage said at the podium, per Variety. “It’s happening right now around all of us: the new AI world. I am a big believer in not letting robots dream for us. Robots cannot reflect the human condition for us.”
“That is a dead end if an actor lets one AI robot manipulate his or her performance even a little bit, an inch will eventually become a mile and all integrity, purity and truth of art will be replaced by financial interests only,” he continued. “We can’t let that happen.”
Those words arrived shortly after Paul McCartney and Elton John criticized a U.K. copyright law that would allow companies to use their music to train AI models, or in John’s words to the Sunday Times, to “ride roughshod” over laws that “protect artists’ livelihoods.”
The speech also followed substantial backlash against director Brady Corbet, who recently admitted using AI to refine Adrien Brody’s Hungarian dialogue in “The Brutalist.” The film was recently nominated for 10 Oscars, including a best actor nod for Brody.
Cage previously confessed he’s “terrified” that artificial intelligence could “steal” his likeness after he dies, and argued Sunday that the consequences of standardizing its use to alter performance or replace artists would be devastating for human culture entirely.
“The job of all art in my view, film performance included, is to hold a mirror to the external and internal stories of the human condition through the very human thoughtful and emotional process of recreation,” said Cage, per Variety. “A robot can’t do that.”
“If we let robots do that, it will lack all heart and ... turn to mush,” he added. “There will be no human response to life as we know it. It will be life as robots tell us to know it. I say, protect yourselves from AI interfering with your authentic and honest expressions.”
