‘In two years, nobody will care’ if actors are AI or not, predicts La Haine director

Mathieu Kassovitz at the second World AI film festival in Cannes yesterday: ‘In a few years you will have … AI actors with millions of followers.’ Photograph: Shootpix/ABACA/Shutterstock

His hit film was a masterpiece capturing the gritty truth of the Paris suburbs, but the director of La Haine is now sold on an AI-generated future for cinema.

Mathieu Kassovitz has called the technology the “the last artistic tool we need” and dismissed concerns about AI stealing other artists’ intellectual property, telling the Guardian: “Fuck copyright.”