To the editor: When AI begins to negatively have an effect on a movie director’s earnings or job safety, maybe movie director Jon Erwin may then rethink AI as a “movie’s savior” (“Why this Hollywood director thinks AI can save L.A. film jobs,” Could 13).
In response to one 2024 report, greater than 200,000 jobs within the leisure trade may very well be displaced by AI. These almost definitely to be affected embody background actors, crew members, manufacturing workers and positions equivalent to grips and prop masters.
The roles which may be changed by AI with a purpose to lower manufacturing prices can solely assist guarantee Erwin’s continued tenure as a movie director. In any case, he’s saving studios cash; subsequently, his excessive wage isn’t but threatened.
Tangentially, if a movie equivalent to “Lawrence of Arabia” had been remade as we speak by means of synthetic intelligence, one would possible obtain a plastic imitation of David Lean’s masterpiece.
Giuseppe Mirelli, Los Angeles
