{"id":520438,"date":"2026-07-11T05:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T05:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/520438\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T05:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T05:34:12","slug":"christopher-nolan-praises-gen-z-for-utterly-rejecting-ai-slop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/520438\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Nolan Praises Gen Z For “Utterly Rejecting” AI Slop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs Christopher Nolan<\/a> prepares to take viewers on an Imax odyssey, he\u2019s hopeful for the future of filmmaking without the use of AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2x Oscar winner admitted that not all applications of artificial intelligence<\/a> are \u201cuseless of meaningless,\u201d he explained that generative AI is \u201chitting at exactly the wrong time\u201d for Hollywood.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve never seen a more rapid wholesale dismissal of a supposedly foundational jump in technology in my lifetime,\u201d Nolan 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

\n\tCiting his own kids as an example, Nolan added, \u201cTheir judgment of AI slop has been immediate and harsh. They see it for what it is very quickly \u2013 and 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 film-making 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

\n\tNolan praised young filmmakers like Obsession director Curry Barker and Backrooms\u2018 Kane Parsons for their use of practical effects when possible, noting \u201cyoung people can\u2019t get enough of\u201d their work.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think cinema is vital and essential and continues to transform itself \u2013 we\u2019ve got all these great new young voices in movies, making the medium their own and moving it forward,\u201d added Nolan.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe use of AI in Hollywood continues to be a hot-button topic in recent years. SAG-AFTRA has endorsed the Trump administration\u2019s AI policy framework<\/a>, which calls for Congress to enact legislation that includes parental controls, intellectual property rights protection, First Amendment protections, expanding AI workforce development, allowing data centers to generate their own power and removing legal barriers that limit AI innovation.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast month, Trump signed an executive order<\/a> for voluntary framework in which AI companies would provide the government with access to new models for a 30-day review period before their release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Christopher Nolan prepares to take viewers on an Imax odyssey, he\u2019s hopeful for the future of filmmaking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,58943,43152,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-520438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-gen-ai","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}