Hannah Mullane for the @BBC: "Do you think filmmakers could be left behind if they don't embrace new technology like AI?" Justine Bateman: "(Laughs) It's the total opposite. You will absolutely be left behind if you're using AI. You completely stop your forward momentum as an artist by using AI, because you're going, 'Eh, I'm done thinking imaginatively about progressing within my skillset. I'm going to jump off that and start using something that regurgitates stolen work from other people.' You'll go forward creatively, if you don't use AI. You'll do the opposite if you use AI." Link below.

Sep 22, 2025 · 3:53 PM UTC

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BBC piece here (17 min): bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct6rsl
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Thank you for standing up against AI in films !
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The people taking shortcuts only think they are winning
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Where would you be without the gatekeeping media? You want to stifle real creatives like me who would never be allowed in a studio. That's all it's about.
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AI is one of my policy points _I too had a screenplay stolen and it was proven. If @justinebateman you wish to support ALL Democratic candidates running for House Seats in Congress 2026 donate here -yes yes I am included(annawildingforcalifornia.com! secure.actblue.com/donate/al…

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AI Completes the dumbing down of society.
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Not that my opinion matters more or less, but here's my 2 cents that nobody cares about or asked to hear: AI is going to take over that industry. It makes zero financial sense to make a movie for 200 million dollars when you make pretty close to the same thing for about $1000.
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Extremely high production costs will continue to push technology into this industry.
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They said the exact same thing resisting digital adoption in the late 1980's. Genuinely creative people are open to new media technologies, to expand their creative possibilities
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Creativity in movies and TV has been severely lacking for awhile now. Even music is mostly formulaic. People will respond deeply to human inspired story telling. AI creations while amusing and even pleasant will fail to touch in the same manner as a purely human created work.
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I’m not so sure. You still have to think creatively even if you use AI. One still has to describe the details of one’s imagination so that AI can display the output. It’s the actors that get left out.
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Yes! It’s garbage. We need to go back to living in reality. Hollywood is dead anyway. Most actors and actresses are a huge joke. We have zero respect for them.
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This is true of CGI. It could have been used along with other practice effects, but now they film entire movies in front of a green screen and wonder why it lacks heart and soul.
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So I believe the future economy of the arts, craft making of furniture or any other hand made item, will have actual worth in the labor of the making of said object and the ingenuity of the artist or craftsman in either utility or appearance. The AI derived arts or craft will be so abundant as to be almost worthless in comparison in I believe a short time.
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Humanity consuming art produced by machines leaves humanity behind.
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I like you point of view generally but think it's a bit off here. AI is just a tool you add to your toolbox. It can be used creatively.
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It is incredible to me that so many people are considering surrendering an essence of humanity, creative use of the most powerful brain on the planet, to a computer simulation. It’s a tool not a substitute for living. Surrendering to it means the end of humanity.
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An artist who uses AI doesn't replace anything. AI is a tool. A very powerful tool and welded by the right artist, it can create something we've never seen before. It democratizes creation. Movies will still be made. And movies that could never have gotten made will get made.
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Hundreds of people have asked me if the video you're about to see is real. Spoiler alert - it isn't. It's just one of countless AI Fakes using my image to defraud unsuspecting viewers into giving up their personal information. This one involves the promise of free products from Yeti. Don't fall for it. And please share this. The number of people getting ripped off every day is extraordinary.
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I have created "AI Artwork" - I did not feel creative - maybe clever prompting, but nothing else felt good or natural about it. I had some very nice results that lacked something. I did not feel good about what I made. Because I did not make it. Very little of the tool was me. Empty. Not art. Not really anything. AI images lack a soul. I don't hardly use it anymore for making images.
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I would agree...if you replace "use" with "rely on". Those that "rely on" on AI to be creative will eventually & quickly become average at best. Those that "use" AI effectively will accelerate their output & remain successful - even within the creative process.
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Agreed ... and thanks so much for the Black Rabbit tip! Another outstanding Jason performance in both acting and directing. I had to use AI to find out what to call this ... but the "foreshadowing through symbolic title cards" which was also used in Ozark was great as well.
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This is true in software dev too. The best stuff isn’t ai.
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There is no art without an artist.
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I'm all for people making movies however they like. AI, no AI, but why be an extremist?
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In addition to AI for lazy none creative work- Hollywood continues with remakes of the same old stories.
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As an average American id rather find AI than ppl who call me garbage. We've seen the same stories told over and over, plus all the weird stuff Hollywood actors seem to embrace. I think you should reexam the public take
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I like making a funny clip with Veo3, but it's not film making. No AI can make Lawrence of Arabia or Yojimbo.
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Agreed. If you rely on GPS you lose your navigating skills. If you use AI you lose your thinking and writing skills.
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Could not agree more and intellectual property rights could very well be upended. AI is a tool only a tool for the human mind to enhance itself not replace it. Cancer, quantum states, space travel, interplanetary colonization are good uses for AI. I don’t even like CGI in movies.
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Like the Borg, in Star Trek, you will be assimilated and added to the collective. AI should only be used as a tool and not a replacement-prosthetic soul.
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I think there is gray area worth exploring. Artists, w ideas worth exploring seldom have financial resources to commit to traditional methods. Tell your story using the resources within reach.
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How it started Don't call me Al / How it's going Don't call me A.I.
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Maybe the rise of AI slop will push studios and film makers as a group to stop churning out derivative, soulless slop in response.
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AI is for cheaters. It will do for the movie industry what calculators did for your youth in math class.
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