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“Shazam!” Star Zachary Levi Feels a Biblical Disaster Coming, Thanks to artificial intelligence.
in it “The George Janko Show” In the podcast, Levi compared AI to the great flood in the book of Genesis, saying, “I don’t believe the flood is water. Honestly, I believe the flood is AI.”
He continued, “We can talk all day and get philosophical about how we save the industry from itself in the way it treats people, or if it doesn’t make great content or whatever. Guys, honestly, I like it, t- minus two.” In a few years, good luck finding a job, because the studios will have a technology… it’s basically already here.”
Levi went on to give an example of how audiences can generate their own movies thanks to artificial intelligence technology.
Zachary Levi compared the future of AI to the great biblical flood. (Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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“Imagine that not only will every studio have owned this technology, but they will also come to you and say, ‘Hey, as part of your subscription to HBO Max, you can pay an extra ten dollars and you’ll be able to use the creator sandbox, and there , you can make your own movies and you can write anything that is a Warner Brothers asset, so it can be Shazam and Batman and Neo from ‘The Matrix,’ and you can write all these characters, and you want them to continue “A Search for the treasure on Mars and I want it It looks like a Stephen Spielberg movie, come on.” And then you’ll make that movie, and it’ll look indistinguishable from the one made by humans; in fact, it’ll look amazing, and it’ll be completely animated, but it’ll look like real life. This is where we’re about. to be.”
The “tangled ones” The star mentioned that he is working on his own studio to stay ahead of the curve, saying, “Right now, the studio I’m trying to build looks a lot like the ark that God was telling Noah, ‘You’ve got to build this thing.’ ., because the flood is coming.”
When asked by host George Janko why he wanted to continue working in entertainment if AI poses such a threat, Levi focused on the power of the human element.
“There should always be, hopefully always be, a niche, at least a niche part of the entertainment industry where people say, ‘I still want to support humans making art. Art made by humans.'”
Levi predicted that artificial intelligence tools will soon be available that will allow people to create their own movies with just a few prompts. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
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He admitted that it will be a harder sell as AI advances.
“No matter how good AI-derived art is, it will be very, very, very, very good and it will be cheap. Most people think, ‘Yeah, but I’ll never want computer-generated art.'” movie.’ Yes we’re being super altruistic, obviously, but yes a movie made by humans still costs you twenty dollars, but for two dollars you can make a movie where, by the way, you can scan your own face and your own voice. and you get to be Superman or, better yet, your kid gets to be Superman, and now you can shut them up for the next two hours for two dollars and watch themselves being Superman in the movie, you’re absolutely going to pay for that movie. “.
“I don’t think the flood is water. Honestly, I think the flood is AI.”
The “Chuck” star also noted that he faces new competition from actors from the past whose images can be released by their families. He explained a hypothetical situation in which Gene Kelly’s descendants could sell the rights to the star’s image. “And then all of a sudden we’re going to be able to watch Gene Kelly movies again. How crazy! And again, I don’t want to support that, but are you kidding me?! . . . Like a new ‘Singin’ sequel in the rain? I want to see it, take my money!”
Levi’s example is not far away, since there have already been attempts to make a film with a James Dean resurrected by AI, although none have been completed or published to date.
Levi said actors will soon seriously compete with long-dead celebrities thanks to AI. (Daniel Knighton/Getty Images)
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Entertainment, of course, is not the only industry that will see the impact of AI, and Levi urged people to remain vigilant.
“I don’t want to be a doomsayer, but I can’t stress this enough, please… wake up the AI. Please wake up to it. It’s not, ‘Oh, that’s fun,’ or some fad or whatever. It will replace many jobs and it will happen much faster than you think,” he said.
“There should always be, hopefully always be, a niche, at least a niche part of the entertainment industry where people say, ‘I still want to support humans who make art.'”
The 44-year-old went on to say: “In the grand scheme of everything, when it comes to technology and progress, I firmly believe that you can’t stop it, you can only hope to guide it. So, we’re not going to stop this flood. We can only build levees, dams, canals and things to try to make sure that we are guiding it in the best way possible. There will still be casualties, there will still be a flood that gets a lot of people. Unfortunately, it hurts in the process, but I think in the end. of the day, we are moving into what will be a whole new world, legitimately.”
The show “Shazam!” Star believes AI will displace many jobs, but will hopefully allow humans to focus on “creation and discovery.” (Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)
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“Ultimately, and this is part of the reason why I want to build, why I feel like I need to build the campus, or plural campuses if I can do multiple, is because I think that really, as humans, what we want that we will focus on are simply, there are two areas of vocation that already mean something, moving towards the future, and that is creation and discovery.
the one I added AI will continue to be a tool used in creation and discovery, but those two things are what “stimulate the human heart and mind and soul, and I think that as long as we really preserve lots of places for people to work, because work is not just a matter of do Work is a purpose. How many people retire and die just a few years after retiring, and why? They are super sedentary and now they have no purpose and die.”
Levi believes that AI will be a tool to help humans continue creation and discovery, and will allow people to continue having a purpose. (Jason Mendez/Getty Images)
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“I think it’s important, we have to have a purpose as we move into this new world, but I don’t know. I don’t know what it’s going to be like for everyone else in all the other industries. And I don’t know. I’m sure what’s going to happen.” happen in entertainment. I can guess, and my guess is that, in a very short time, people, not just the studios but ordinary human beings across the studios’ various catalogs, will have access, by the way, to No, they just make their own movies but TV shows, video games”.