In a recent profile with The Hollywood Reporter, Johnson called out the widespread use of AI, saying, “Yeah, f*** AI. It’s something that’s making everything worse in every single way—I don’t get it. I mean, I get it in a ‘This makes sense to save money by not paying artists’ way.’ But then, what the f*** are we doing? Is this where we want to be?”
Guillermo del Toro, who is currently doing a press tour for Frankenstein and who is one of Johnson’s friends, is also staunchly anti-AI. Talking to variety, del Toro said, “AI, particularly generative AI — I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested,” del Toro said. “I’m 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. … The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I’d rather die.'”
