In today’s time, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is dominating every field. And Hollywood is no exception. In fact, one core dispute in Hollywood’s dual strike was the emergence of AI. There is an obvious concern that AI will take human’s job. And, at such a time, Reese Witherspoon, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for portraying June Carter Cash in the musical biopic Walk the Line shares her thoughts on the rise of AI and how we should cope with it.
What Reese Witherspoon Thinks Of AI and Its Threat?
Reese Witherspoon in Home Again (2017). Image Credit: Open Road Films
One thing is certain, there’s no stop to AI now. It already entered almost every field. Be it labor jobs or automobiles sector, be it media house. And how could Hollywood escape from it?
But Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon thinks that rather than worrying much about its rise and potential threat, we better learn how to use it.
During a Morning Show panel at PaleyFest L.A. on Friday, Reese Witherspoon said that AI should be embraced.
“It’s here to stay, so just get used to it.”
Speaking on the issue of its threat to existing jobs, she further said:
“I think AI is not coming for your job; people who know how to use AI are coming for your job. So learn about it. It should be a tool upon which we lay our own creativity, our own humanity and our own ethics.” (Via THR)
“Let’s not be scared of it, let’s dive in,” she added.
She has made a name for herself as an actor and film producer and though she has appeared in a wide range of genres, she was most certainly best known for her romantic comedies.
Reese Witherspoon Reflects on the Negative Impact of Streaming Giants on Today’s Actors
Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon in Friends (1994). Image Credit: NBC
Be it her charming smile or acting talent, Reese Witherspoon has been winning hearts. Her work in Gone Girl, Just Like Heaven, This Means War, Hot Pursuit, and Home Again made the audience appreciate her talent.
However, she has some concerns for the up-and-comers. In the same show, she along with Jennifer Aniston, spoke about how streaming giants could make it harder for the coming-age actors to build a career like them.
She believes the lack of data transparency by the popular streaming giants would not allow today’s actors to enjoy their careers. She said:
“I really worry and wonder about what is the world for artists? Are careers like ours possible ever again? Are there opportunities for people to really emerge as a star? How do you know with no data transparency? How do we even know if something did well or didn’t do right?”
Though, to some extent, Netflix is transparent, other big streamers are not, and that worries Witherspoon.
“And it’s tough as an actor — how do you negotiate? How does a producer? How do you market? If you don’t know where you sit in a landscape, how do you value something? There’s real amounts of data too, they’ve got a lock on it. They don’t want you to have the advantage, and it’s tough.”
Aniston also echoed Witherspoon’s comment saying:
“We did start in this industry in a time when it was so glamorous and so fun, and [you would] just to go on auditions and auditions and just hope that you get it. And if you get that Movie of the Week and then hope you get that little guest star on ‘Quantum Leap.’ When it was so simple, and now it is becoming so… it’s too much sometimes.”
Though currently, we have a number of streamers to just pick anything and watch, some viewers say that it may lead to “subscription fatigue.”
