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'The Odyssey' Director Chris Nolan: Young Audiences are Rejecting 'AI Slop'
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“The Odyssey” director Christopher Nolan famously doesn’t use a smartphone, so it’s perhaps unsurprising that he isn’t on board with the latest tech buzzphrase.
Key facts
- On the other side of the fence are the likes of Martin Scorsese, who has joined AI firm Black Forest Labs as an adviser, and “Terminator 2” director James Cameron, who sits on the board of Stability
- The Odyssey” director Christopher Nolan famously doesn’t use a smartphone, so it’s perhaps unsurprising that he isn’t on board with the latest tech buzzphrase
- That said, he’s not averse to using computer-generated VFX himself, like Two-Face’s scarred visage in “The Dark Knight,” and he conceded that not every aspect of generative AI is necessarily “useless or meaningless
- Nolan’s own blockbusters have become famous for their spectacular in-camera effects work, whether crashing a 747 into a building for “Tenet,” landing a Spitfire on a beach for “Dunkirk” or planting entire crops of corn for a chase scene in “Interstellar
Summary
He argued that in filmmakers are showing a "renewed interest" in tactile storytelling after years of "heavily virtual environments. The emergence of generative AI has divided the top rank of filmmakers, with some embracing the technology and others rejecting it outright. On the press tour for his latest effort, Nolan told The Telegraph that young audiences are “utterly rejecting” generative AI, adding that, “I’ve never seen a more rapid wholesale dismissal of a supposedly foundational jump in technology in my lifetime.” He pointed to the reaction of his four children, in their late teens and early 20s.