Legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg spoke out towards using AI know-how when utilized in artistic endeavors in an interview on the SXSW convention in Austin on Friday. Requested how he considered AIβs utility as a part of the filmmaking course of, Spielberg mentioned, βIβve by no means used AI on any of my movies but,β to which the viewers erupted with cheers and applause.
The director/producer/screenwriter, who turned a family identify for blockbusters like βJaws,β βE.T.,β βShut Encounters of the Third Form,β βRaiders of the Misplaced Ark,β and plenty of others, is just not anti-technology, essentially. His personal movies have imagined worlds full of know-how, for each good and unhealthy, like βMinority Report,β βPrepared Participant One,β and, after all, βA.I. Synthetic Intelligence,β to call a couple of.
At SXSW 2026, Spielberg mentioned he didnβt need to go on a rant about AI, noting that he was for the know-how βin lots of disciplines,β however in his writersβ rooms, even in TV, βthereβs not an empty chair with a laptop computer in entrance of it.β Which means, heβs not outsourcing creativity to the machine.
βI’m not for AI if it replaces a artistic particular person,β he mentioned.
After all, somebody like Spielberg might not want an AI help. AI startups are pitching themselves to resource-constrained indie filmmakers. Elsewhere, massive names in streaming are additionally wanting to make use of AI. Amazon this 12 months mentioned itβs testing instruments for AI in movie and TV manufacturing, and Netflix earlier this month acquired Ben Affleckβs AI filmmaking firm for a reported $600 million.
