“If you want AI that tells you when something is fake and where it came from, AI can do that,” he says. “Humans can’t, we’re not that smart.
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How could that even be true since it was humans thay trained ai. What a dumb statement ahh
Ai can do plenty of classification tasks better than humans though. It's not like every entity that trains another is fundamentally smarter.
GL already turned when he sold over to Disney. He himself was very limiting towards the progression of Star Wars even before that. I'll admit there are very convincing AI attempts online that IMO actually outdo what Disney has come out with since they've won rights, but that alone doesn't justify using AI.
What this all boils down to is that Disney should not hold the rights. At the end of the day, these AI users are still putting down some kind of story and better dialogue which Disney does not want to follow. They've forgone the real essence and telling of Star Wars and have replaced it with a very Disney vibe that appeals to what Disney chooses to. They've left out the fans entirely.
Kokaku’s website is blocking my VPN connection. Here’s the text of the article.
George Lucas Goes To The Dark Side, Says AI Is ‘The Future’
By Kenneth Shepard Published July 14, 2026
The Star Wars creator compares not using AI to riding a horse in the face of cars
I would like to think that not every prestigious filmmaker is vulnerable to the AI propaganda, but it feels like we’re getting new stories of someone partnering with or advocating for the use of artificial intelligence as the future of cinematic storytelling every day. The newest addition to the list? Mr. Star Wars himself, George Lucas, and man is his reasoning a bummer.
In an interview with A Rabbit’s Foot, Lucas discussed his career and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, opening this fall in L.A., which will be showcasing decades of human-made art and spotlighting, as its website calls it, “stories and people who tell them.” In the lengthy interview, Lucas shares some meaningful insights into filmmaking, discusses his collaborations with people like Indiana Jones director Steven Spielberg, and even offers some pithy observations about the pitfalls of testing films with focus groups and whether or not the average viewer is actually in touch with what they like about movies.
“If they don’t like a character, that’s interesting, and as a filmmaker I want to find out why,” he says. “But when the studios hear that, they take the wrong message. They let the audience actually make the movie. Of course, now they go crazy with that. Now, it’s all about what the fans think. That isn’t how you make the movie. You make a movie by finding someone that knows how to make movies, that has a story to tell and is passionate about it.”
Jarringly, this advocacy for human-led storytelling is followed by claims that AI is “the future,” and Lucas compares not using the new technology to relying on antiquated transportation in the face of cars.
“Artificial intelligence means it’s much easier for us to make movies,” he tells A Rabbit’s Foot. “It’s very much like sitting here saying, ‘Well, I believe the horse and the buggy is really where it’s at. These cars, they break down, they need gas, there’s all kinds of problems with them and pretty soon they’ll be making them into tanks, and then they’ll be killing people. It’s terrible.’ There’s nothing you can do about it. That’s progress, it’s the future.”
Though he acknowledged the risks of using the plagiarism machine when A Rabbit’s Foot questioned him further, he doubled down by highlighting other benefits he believes AI will provide in the future.
“If you want AI that tells you when something is fake and where it came from, AI can do that,” he says. “Humans can’t, we’re not that smart. The whole idea is you’re a human being, you’re responsible for what you say and what you do, and if you’re doing something that’s illegal you should be punished for that. Whatever you do, you should be recognized. It’s just like real life.”
There’s a scene in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back where Luke Skywalker is training alongside Yoda and learning the ins and outs of being a Jedi, and he asks if the dark side of the Force is stronger than the light side. Yoda replies that it’s not, but that many fall to it because it is “quicker, easier, more seductive.” That movie was released 46 years ago, but it is certainly illustrative of the logic Lucas is using here.
He advocates for the importance of human-made art, but then argues that using technology that is notorious for stealing from humans and whose results generally look like shit compared to work made by hand would make the filmmaking process “easier.” It’s “the future” and there’s “nothing you can do about it”? It’s contradictory to believe both that it’s the human spirit that makes great films and also that a technology that’s being used to remove the human element from the process is the future of making movies. If that makes me naive and means I’m fighting against the inevitable, then I will go down swinging.
Continuing that unbroken streak of bad artistic decisions towards an inevitable Star Wars Special 50th Anniversary Slop Edition reissue.
NGL I would buy a ticket to at least the first movie just to commentate as loudly and obnoxiously as possible until I got kicked out.
Not sure why you'd be kicked out. You're not disturbing anyone. You'd be the only one in there.
I know you're joking, but ya know... what kills the joke? Is how wrong you are. There's gonna probably be plenty of dumbass folks there.
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This reads like one of those mass-delete gibberish Reddit comments, lol
It's not every day you get to use a word like dilettante, so I figured I'd make a salad
CGI is one of the places where AI has been used for years. People were happy enough using generative AI before chatbots why stop now? I think the de-aging stuff is a pretty cool storytelling tool and the greenscreen filters save a lot of time and add quality.
Wonder how George will fuck it up will he use a movie generator?
Are you seriously comparing using generative diffusion models to applying a chroma key in video editing?
Are you not aware of the AI assisted greenscreen tools? No well they are helpful and make the job faster.
Frank Herbert wasn't around to tell him how to think about it, I guess.
Where's a good Butlerian Jihad when you need one?
inshallah, amigo
The guy that essentially added lasers to Japanese movies and somehow became a multi-billionaire is a fan of stealing other's work with minimal effort and reusing it without permission?
I'm shocked. Shocked I say.
I mean, to be fair to the 70s version of Lucas, that's basically how all art works. New combinations of old ideas.
To an extent, sure. All the great painters started off as art thieves or apprentices creating duplicates of existing art pieces, etc.
But like AI, Lucas quite arbitrarily mashed together ideas, whole plots, visuals, and even editing styles of stuff he liked and got quite lucky that the main audience he attracted had little interest in any of the disparate parts he stole. Don't get me wrong, like AI, he made something kinda neat that if you're not very media saturated you might like; but also like AI you'll always feel as if something's... off. Like you can tell the pieces don't really go together. Like it's the facsimile of itself. Like it's what would come out if you tried to describe it to someone.
Generally Art uses themes, minor parts, heavily practiced individual strokes. It is not a jigsaw.
Classic George L, I wouldn't have expected any more from him
common George Lucas L
it probably produces dialog that sounds more like it was written by a human
Harsh but accurate. Without Carrie Fisher to doctor his scripts (and his wife to find the film in the edit) Lucas was a director famously indifferent to dialogue or character.
Anyone who saw the Special Editions and expected anything else deserves to be unpleasantly surprised right now
I'm sure he'll make gobs of money off of it, as contradictory as the fan base is they will fill the theaters
Which he would get exactly $0 from since he has no ownership of Star Wars anymore.
Lucas has never seen a technology he wasn't willing to shoehorn and abuse in one of his films.
He's like the polar opposite of James Cameron.
Old, white and wealthy. Of course he thinks AI is the future, all his kind do.
Who cares. He has zero talent, and his movies are childish..