George Lucas, known for creating the Star Warsuniverse, has said he thinks artificial intelligence is the future of Hollywood.
Lucas spoke with A Rabbit’s Footearlier this month. His stance on AI is that it makes the creative process easier. “Artificial intelligence means it’s much easier for us to make movies,” he said. “It’s very much like sitting here saying, ‘Well, I believe the horse and the buggy is really where it’s at. These cars, they break down, they need gas, there’s all kinds of problems with them, and pretty soon they’ll be making them into tanks, and then they’ll be killing people. It’s terrible.’ There’s nothing you can do about it. That’s progress, it’s the future,” the director continued.
The director believes that AI can help solve some of the very issues people are concerned about. “If you want AI that tells you when something is fake and where it came from, AI can do that. Humans can’t; we’re not that smart.”
Generally, there has been strong distaste expressed by creators in Hollywood. The animosity stems from concerns that AI could take creative jobs and make art more repetitive or less human. The fact that AI is not generating new content but rather blending existing work has sparked considerable anger among artists. Another concern with AI is the amount of water that data centers consume and contaminate, which will aid in creating a water bankruptcy.
Earlier this year, the Human Artistry Campaign launched “Steal Isn’t Art,” a campaign that aims to call out tech companies for training their generative AI tools on copyrighted works without permission. Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett, Joseph Gordon-Levitt,Kristen Bell, Vince Gilligan, and Cyndi Lauper are just a handful of the nearly 1000 celebrities who back the campaign.
Lucas has always been an early adopter of new technology in the film industry, even when it has drawn serious criticism. He even invented the technology to create shots as he envisioned them and waited until CGI was up to the level he needed before making the Star Wars prequels.
Though Lucas has credits as the creator on every Star Wars franchise project, he does not often write on the movies or shows. After selling Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012, Lucas has not been involved in the writing of any newer Star Wars content, including the sequel trilogy.
A few other directors have explained that they view generative AI more favorably. Peter Jackson, known for The Lord of the Rings film adaptations, said at the Cannes Film Festival, “AI used in the right way, it’s just a tool like any other tool.”
Although Lucas has taken a back seat creatively from most projects, he recently surprised fans by voicing an animated version of himself in Minions & Monsters.
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