Gore Verbinski Says We Need a ‘Rating System’ for AI Use in Films: ‘If You Use AI to Write a Script, You Get an F’

The American filmmaker is at the Taormina Film Festival with his Sam Rockwell-starring cautionary tale on artificial intelligence, 'Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die'

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American director Gore Verbinski, who is at the Taormina Film Festival in competition with “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die,” spoke about the challenges of labelling the use of AI in films as the technology continues to grow exponentially. 

Verbinski’s latest, a genre-bending sci-fi that sees Sam Rockwell as a time-travelling madman recruiting help to save humanity from the threat of artificial intelligence, led the director to take a deep dive into new tools. Asked about the consequences AI will have on filmmaking, the veteran issued an alert: “You’re supposed to check this box to say no AI is used in your movie, and it’s going to become very complicated soon.”

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