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 would possibly then rethink AI as a “movie’s savior” (“Why this Hollywood director thinks AI can save L.A. movie jobs,” Could 13).
In keeping with one 2024 report, greater than 200,000 jobs within the leisure business might be displaced by AI. These probably to be affected embrace background actors, crew members, manufacturing workers and positions similar to grips and prop masters.
The roles which may be changed by AI as a way to lower manufacturing prices can solely assist guarantee Erwin’s continued tenure as a movie director. In spite of everything, he’s saving studios cash; due to this fact, his excessive wage isn’t but threatened.
Tangentially, if a movie similar to “Lawrence of Arabia” have been remade as we speak by synthetic intelligence, one would seemingly obtain a plastic imitation of David Lean’s masterpiece.
Giuseppe Mirelli, Los Angeles
