Chris Pratt told Variety Tuesday night at the New York premiere of โMercyโ that he doesnโt โfeel like someoneโs gonna replace meโ with AI. He added that the panic surrounding synthetic AI performers like Tilly Norwood is โall bullshit.โ
โI donโt feel like someoneโs gonna replace me thatโs AI,โ Pratt said. โI heard this Tilly Norwood thing, I think thatโs all bullshit. Iโve never seen her in a movie. I donโt know who this bitch is. Itโs all fake until itโs something.โ
Pratt went on to say there are wider applications of AI that donโt threaten human jobs, and that the emerging tech can be โan amazing tool in the right hands.โ Although he thinks it will โinevitably disrupt the industry,โ he had no doubts that โgreat filmmakersโ will continue to make โgreat films.โ
He added, โI donโt think youโre going to replace the human soul of a director or a writer or an actor or a singer or any of this stuff that requires human yearning and suffering and vision in art.โ
Tilly Norwood is a synthetic AI performer created by Dutch comedian Eline Van der Velden. After Van der Velden unveiled her creation at the Zurich Film Festival last summer, claiming Tilly would soon sign for representation, there was immediate backlash from the entertainment industry at large. SAG-AFTRA said Tilly and other AI performers like it create โthe problem of using stolen performances to put actors out of work, jeopardizing performer livelihoods and devaluing human artistry.โ
In response, Van der Velden defended Tilly as โnot a replacement for a human being, but a creative work โ a piece of art.โ
Pratt is hardly the first Hollywood mainstay to give his thoughts on AI in film. In December, Leonardo DiCaprio said AI lacks humanity and therefore could never be โauthenticallyโ considered art.
โIt could be an enhancement tool for a young filmmaker to do something weโve never seen before,โ DiCaprio said. โI think anything that is going to be authentically thought of as art has to come from the human being.โ
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