Acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro spoke out about his thoughts on artificial intelligence and what he feels gets lost in the creative process when AI is used in art.
Del Toro popped into the r/movies subreddit for an AMA session with fans on September 9. One of these fans, going by the username ihs25ysf, asked him about some comments he’d made during a 2024 talk at the British Film Institute, where he said that AI can create “semi-compelling screensavers” and “that’s essentially that.”
“The value of art is not in how much it costs and how little effort it requires," he said at the time. "It's how much would you risk to be in its presence."
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The Pan’s Labyrinth creator has been adamant that the human element of art be preserved — something for which he continued to advocate in his response to the fan, who asked him for his opinion on the “biggest thing lost” when a “computer generates an image instead of a human hand.”
To Del Toro, the “alchemy” of creativity and discovery humans experience when crafting a story or artwork is unachievable by a machine, and many of the best works are often elevated by "accidents" that happen during the creative process.
“The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process,” he answered. “Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%.”
He went on to use the Pale Man from Pan’s Labyrinth as an example of this, describing how its design was inspired by an unlikely combination of a manta ray and artwork on a poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm.
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