Jodie Foster Says Brad Pitt’s ‘F1’ Seemed Like It Was Made by AI and Written by a Computer: "Wasn’t It?"

>“I don’t say this disparagingly — how could I? This movie went on to make millions of dollars. But I look at a movie like ‘F1’ and I’m like, ‘F1’ was made by AI,” she said with a laugh at the Colorado event. “Wasn’t it? I mean, the structure was exactly the structure that you would learn in school. The actors say the lines exactly the way it would be written if a computer was writing exactly what would be the right thing for that time. And they were able to dominate the technology to make something big and beautiful and potentially where a lot of the information comes from other places.”

>“AI is one more giant step forward into changing the industry,” Foster said after detailing the changes to the movie business brought by CGI and digital technology.

>“The big question is, is it going to replace actors and writers?” asked Lynton. “We do replace people,” Foster replied, explaining how studios save money on crowd scenes by replicating background actors. “We’re getting rid of a lot of jobs and hopefully, things like unions will be able to come in and say, you can use my actor 20 times, but you’re going to pay him 20 times. And I think that’s fair.”

>“If we are able to dominate AI consistently over time, we will be able to make things that reflect us, and we can make things better,” she said.