Jon M. Chu suspects that artificial intelligence can be born nasty.
The Silicon Valley education of the successful filmmaker, which he detailed in his memoirs in 2024 “Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Stowing”, made it comfortable with technology from a very young age, he said on Sunday in a panel of the Times Festival of Books. This even gave him an advantage as a young man pursuing a creative career which now includes realization credits for successful films such as “Wicked” and “Crazy Rich Asians”.
But CHU said that he thought that the entertainment industry was too lax on the methods of ethically questionable training of technological companies since the advent of generating AI, calling for the unauthorized use of Hollywood creations an “original sin”.
“There was a first sin that I think we are not yet finished, that is to say that they have gathered all the data. They took all the scripts, they took all the films,” CHU told the public. In his opinion, the studios which had such documents protected by copyright did not fought strong enough.
“It feels like saying:” We have passed it, move on “,” he said, adding that he could “never forgive this”.
But the director of the “rich Asians” said that although generative AI is “frightening” for the entertainment industry, he is convinced that he will never replace human creativity. It will not steal the people of the right either to define “art” for themselves.
“I don't think robots choose what we decide is precious,” said CHU.
“We decide, and it's very stimulating for me,” he said.
CHU also spoke during the Sunday panel of his next projects, including “Wicked: For Good”, which is planned for a theatrical outing on November 21. Apart from the film musical, CHU also works on the adaptations of the Memoirs of Britney Spears in 2023 “The woman in me” And the video game “split fiction”, which focuses on two writers friends who are trapped in a high -tech simulation of their imagination.
“It has been disclosed, so I cannot confirm or deny it, but yes,” he said about this last adaptation project would have played the role of Sydney Sweeney.
However, the director said that the challenge of visualizing the double realities of the video game “excites me because I do not yet know how to balance this.”
