{"id":414613,"date":"2025-11-30T07:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T07:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/414613\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T07:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T07:40:20","slug":"bong-joon-celine-song-jenna-ortega-talk-ai-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/414613\/","title":{"rendered":"Bong Joon, Celine Song, Jenna Ortega Talk AI Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBong Joon Ho<\/a> took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of AI technology<\/a> at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy official answer is, AI is good because it\u2019s the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I\u2019m going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\n\tJoon Ho was joined on stage by jury members Celine Song<\/a>, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jenna Ortega<\/a>, Karim A\u00efnouz, Hakim Belabbes, Julia Ducournau and Payman Maadi.<\/p>\n

\n\tPast Lives director Song gave a longer answer in which she endorsed recent comments by Guillermo del Toro on his rejection of AI technology.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTo quote Guillermo del Toro, who will be here at this festival, \u2018Fuck AI\u2019\u2026 the way that it is completely destroyed the planet\u2026 the way that it is completely colonizing our minds in the way that we encounter images and sound, I\u2019m very concerned about it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe number one thing that we\u2019re here to defend as artists is humanity\u2026 We\u2019re here not to think about makes human life easy, what makes it convenient, but what it\u2019s like to actually live.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSong brought up TV show Severance, about the employees of a biotech firm who have undergone a procedure that severs their personal memories from their work ones.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSeverance is one of the best documents about the way that AI is completely taking over what is beautifully difficult about human life\u2026 the thing I\u2019m actually more worried about than anything, is the way that it is trying to encroach on what makes our lives very, very beautiful and very, very hard, and what makes living worth doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe suggested that creative work should be a combination of skill, creativity and lived experiences and not simply an act of execution.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen I work with my cinematographer, it might be easy to think that cinematography is a lot of images, but working with my cinematographer, who\u2019s a human being, a grown man, I get to have his whole life. The images that he makes are not just things that you can just pin into an algorithm and pop back,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe images that I make with my cinematographer is what I get by having his entire life\u2019s work and his entire existence as a human being, the difficulties, the failures, everything\u2026 so deeply and\u2026 not very respectfully fuck AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOrtega, who is Marrakech\u2019s youngest ever jury member, also addressed the question, saying she had a similar take to Song.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere is really charm in the human condition\u2026 as humans, we have a tendency to always, when you look back at history, take things too far. It\u2019s very easy to be terrified. I know I am in times like this of deep uncertainty. And it kind of feels like we\u2019ve opened up a Pandora\u2019s Box,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actress said she hoped that people would eventually get sick of the work created by AI, to return to authentic human creations.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s certain things that AI just isn\u2019t able to replicate, and yes, there\u2019s beautiful, difficult mistakes, and a computer can\u2019t do that. A computer has no soul, and it\u2019s nothing that we would ever be able to resonate with or relate to,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t want to assume for the audience, but I would hope it gets to a point where it becomes some sort of mental junk food, AI and looking at the screen, and then suddenly we all feel sick, and we don\u2019t know why, and then that one independent filmmaker in their backyard comes out with something, and it releases this new excitement again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMoroccan director Belabbes suggested the AI\u2019s growing influence in the filmmaking and wider creative sphere was a new form of colonialism.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe models they use in AI don\u2019t belong to me. They\u2019re not mine. I have to create my own worlds\u2026 otherwise it\u2019s just a new form of colonialism. It\u2019s the whitewashing of our heritage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tSong came back into the conversation to pick up on this point, saying she felt there was a sense in the AI community that filmmakers could be bought and their work then shaped to fit \u201can algorithm of what they believe about the market, what they believe about what is happening in the world for them, which is deeply capitalism, colonialism and imperialism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFrench director Julia Ducournau was a lone voice highlighting the benefits of AI as a tool but also adding that use of the technology to reduce costs and headcount on a project would be \u201cwrong and immoral\u201d.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn Alpha, my latest film, we used it for CGI and it really did help us a lot. However, I really believe that at no point should AI \u00a0take over human work and human interaction. I cannot have an artistic dialog with AI. I can have an artistic dialog with my CGI supervisor in the way we\u2019re going to use that tool. I think that it should just remain a tool\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of AI…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":414614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,12581,738,58201,7704,58129,194292,59368,16994,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-414613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-technology","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-bong-joon-ho","12":"tag-celine-song","13":"tag-jenna-ortega","14":"tag-marrakech-film-festival","15":"tag-morocco","16":"tag-techline","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115637519763909905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}