{"id":764279,"date":"2026-07-15T12:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/764279\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T12:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:06:25","slug":"george-lucas-goes-to-the-dark-side-says-ai-is-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/764279\/","title":{"rendered":"George Lucas Goes To The Dark Side, Says AI Is \u2018The Future\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

I would like to think that not every prestigious filmmaker is vulnerable to the AI propaganda, but it feels like we\u2019re getting new stories of someone partnering with or advocating for the use of artificial intelligence<\/a> as the future of cinematic storytelling every day. The newest addition to the list? Mr. Star Wars<\/a> himself, George Lucas, and man is his reasoning a bummer.<\/p>\n

In an interview with A Rabbit\u2019s Foot<\/a>, 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<\/a> calls it, \u201cstories and people who tell them.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they don\u2019t like a character, that\u2019s interesting, and as a filmmaker I want to find out why,\u201d he says. \u201cBut 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\u2019s all about what the fans think. That isn\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jarringly, this advocacy for human-led storytelling is followed by claims that AI is \u201cthe future,\u201d and Lucas compares not using the new technology to relying on antiquated transportation in the face of cars.<\/p>\n

\u201cArtificial intelligence means it\u2019s much easier for us to make movies,\u201d he tells A Rabbit\u2019s Foot. \u201cIt\u2019s very much like sitting here saying, \u2018Well, I believe the horse and the buggy is really where it\u2019s at. These cars, they break down, they need gas, there\u2019s all kinds of problems with them and pretty soon they\u2019ll be making them into tanks, and then they\u2019ll be killing people. It\u2019s terrible.\u2019 There\u2019s nothing you can do about it. That\u2019s progress, it\u2019s the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though he acknowledged the risks of using the plagiarism machine when A Rabbit\u2019s Foot questioned him further, he doubled down by highlighting other benefits he believes AI will provide in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want AI that tells you when something is fake and where it came from, AI can do that,\u201d he says. \u201cHumans can\u2019t, we\u2019re not that smart. The whole idea is you\u2019re a human being, you\u2019re responsible for what you say and what you do, and if you\u2019re doing something that\u2019s illegal you should be punished for that. Whatever you do, you should be recognized. It\u2019s just like real life.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s 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\u2019s not, but that many fall to it because it is \u201cquicker, easier, more seductive.\u201d That movie was released 46 years ago, but it is certainly illustrative of the logic Lucas is using here.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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 \u201ceasier.\u201d It\u2019s \u201cthe future\u201d and there\u2019s \u201cnothing you can do about it\u201d? It\u2019s contradictory to believe both that it\u2019s the human spirit that makes great films and also that a technology that\u2019s being used to remove the human element from the process is the future of making movies. If that makes me naive and means I\u2019m fighting against the inevitable, then I will go down swinging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I would like to think that not every prestigious filmmaker is vulnerable to the AI propaganda, but it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-764279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}