{"id":797581,"date":"2026-07-12T18:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797581\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T18:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:44:19","slug":"odyssey-director-christopher-nolan-says-young-people-hate-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797581\/","title":{"rendered":"Odyssey Director Christopher Nolan Says Young People Hate AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Generative AI might threaten to destroy Hollywood, but that doesn\u2019t mean everyone there is having the same response to it. Apollo 13 director Ron Howard is bullish<\/a> on the controversial technology, and thinks puppet legend Jim Henson would have been too. The Shape of Water director Guillermo Del Toro, meanwhile, has not so subtly been subtweeting people<\/a> who prioritize AI prompts over human craftsmanship. Christopher Nolan, ahead of the release of The Odyssey<\/a>, believes that no matter how certain filmmakers feel about AI, one thing is clear: young people hate it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never seen a more rapid wholesale dismissal of a supposedly foundational jump in technology in my lifetime,\u201d he recently told The Telegraph<\/a>. \u201cSo much energy has been expended on bringing in AI, but if you look at that generation\u2019s reaction, they\u2019re utterly rejecting it.\u201d<\/p>\n

This observation is undeniable. As companies ramp up their loud calls for AI to be inserted into every part of our lives, praising its potential to replace humans and reshape the world without our input, the public\u2019s initial skepticism has morphed into a stiff rebuke. It doesn\u2019t help that the most prolific product of AI currently floating around the ether is slop across online platforms people already wish they spent less time on. While boomers share deepfake memes<\/a> on Facebook, younger people are increasingly trying to log off.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir judgment of AI slop has been immediate and harsh,\u201d Nolan said. \u201cThey see it for what it is very quickly\u2013and it\u2019s much easier for them to identify it, because it grew out of an online world they know really well. And while that doesn\u2019t mean that every aspect of the technology is useless or meaningless, in filmmaking it\u2019s hitting at exactly the wrong time. After years of driving towards heavily virtual environments, we\u2019re seeing a renewed interest in more tactile, more real forms of storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even before the emergence of AI, we\u2019ve seen how the mass proliferation of content for streaming platforms<\/a> has degraded the overall craft and quality. Movies filmed on location or with actors in the same room now feel refreshingly authentic and meaningful. The overreliance on green screens, special effects, and creating movies in post-production rather than capturing them in the moment, has led, as Nolan points out, to a greater hunger for art that comes more directly from humans and is less heavily mediated by technology.<\/p>\n

Whether that will stop Hollywood\u2019s leaders from embracing AI in exchange for boatloads of money<\/a> in the meantime remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Generative AI might threaten to destroy Hollywood, but that doesn\u2019t mean everyone there is having the same response…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,101938,61,29185],"class_list":["post-797581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-technology","tag-the-odyssey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}