Some might argue that Artificial Intelligence is trying to "democratise" filmmaking, Breaking Bad and most recently Pluribus creator Vince Gilligan won’t have it. In his new sci-fi show, headlined by Rhea Seehorn, tucked away in the credits it reads, “This show was made by humans.”
“I hate AI,” Vince told Variety. Labelling it as the world’s “most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine”, he added, “I think there’s a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit. It’s basically a bunch of centibillionaires whose greatest life goal is to become the world’s first trillionaires. I think they’re selling a bag of vapour.”
The X-Files writer also said that he isn’t afraid of AI trouncing on the work of true artists. “My toaster oven isn’t suddenly Thomas Keller (American chef) because it heats up a delicious pizza for me,” he said. He, however, can’t help but wonder if one day AI achieves “the singularity,” or “a true sentience that has its own soul, and therefore its own identity.”
“If they ever achieve that, then the whole discussion of slavery has to come back into the forefront of the conversation,” he said. “These trillionaires are going to want to make money on this thing that is now conscious. Is it then a slave? At that point, it is a truly sentient being, and these Silicon Valley a******* are going to monetize this against its own will, right?”
The first two episodes of Pluribus released on Apple TV+ on November 7. The show centres on Carol Sturka (Rhea), a cynical author of romantic-fiction, who finds herself immune when the whole world gets infected by a virus that makes them perpetually happy.
