Dakota Johnson reveals why AI should not be used to create films: 'You can't make art with numbers'

AI has been a boon to humanity in some ways, but it also is evolving and becoming a threat to human positions. While AI is already being used to make art of various types, many people are against the idea and are strongly urging that art be left to the creativity and abstract feelings of human beings. Since time immemorial, art has been given its authentic signature feel based on each artist’s perception and experience while creating the same. Dakota Johnson also strongly believes that art must be left to humans to create authentically based on their strategies, per Bustle.

Speaking about the art of filmmaking using AI, Dakota Johnson is convinced that nothing tops the talent, emotion and more that actors and filmmakers bring to the table. She pointed out that she felt that humans are smarter than executives and other management perceive them to be and using AI to create films isn’t going to pique the interest of the audience. "Audiences will always be able to sniff out bullshit. Even if films start to be made with AI, humans aren’t going to fucking want to see those,” she said. The actor further pointed out the problem that films are moving from the idea of being an art to becoming a commercial business.

“It’s so hard to get movies made, and in these big movies that get made—and it’s even starting to happen with the little ones, which is what’s freaking me out—decisions are being made by committees, and art does not do well when it’s made by committee,” Johnson said. She stressed the fact that films are the result of the coming together of filmmakers and artists. “You cannot make art based on numbers and algorithms,” she remarked. The actor who starred in "Madame Web," a sci-fi, revealed that it felt like “art made by committee.” Identifying it as a threat to creative space, Johnson highlighted that she wasn’t a fan of the film as it unraveled its course.

“I had never done anything like it before. I probably will never do anything like it again because I don’t make sense in that world. Sometimes in this industry, you sign on to something, and it’s one thing and then as you’re making it, it becomes a completely different thing, and you’re like, ‘Wait, what?’ But it was a real learning experience, and of course, it’s not nice to be a part of something that’s ripped to shreds, but I can’t say that I don’t understand,” she explained. The actor is big on the fact that films are art and should have no business factor involved as a primary means.

Speaking about her next, "Daddio", Johnson is excited and looking forward to it as she completes shoots. The actor mentioned that it truly holds the aura of the art of filming which is what the entire purpose of a film should be. She said, “Well, I went directly from 'Madame Web' to 'Daddio', and that was my salvation. We shot that in 16 days and my company made it, so that means that I was very hands-on. It was amazing. It was so contained.”