Guillermo del Toro Opinion on AI Teetering After Hearing it Called "Monstrous"
A man and his monsters.
From a strategically placed Bush inside a recent Oscar luncheon, I can confirm that filmmaker and outspoken anti-AI advocate, Guillermo del Toro, changed his mind on the controversial technology after hearing his Frankenstein lead, Jacob Elordi, refer to it as "monstrous."
"I hate AI," said Elordi, del Toro's star, and tablemate. "The idea of outsourcing human moments to a machine is monstrous."
"Monstrous?" said the Pan's Labyrinth director, eyes alight with childlike wonder. "AI… is like… my monsters?"
"No, Guillermo, not like that," Elordi responded, but it was too late. The filmmaker, who had previously said that he would "rather die" than use AI, had reportedly begun to see the humanity of the technology through the lens of the imperfect, the marginalized, the misfit.
"Is Frankenstein not the story of AI?" del Toro asked. "A tale of stealing things that don't belong to you to make something that looks almost right if you squint?"
Later, during a tribute to writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, whose action-comedy One Battle After Another is considered the awards season's frontrunner, del Toro expounded on his newly adopted views. "Perhaps the French 75 could have won with a little help from ChatGPT," he said, as Anderson attempted to hide behind a cloud of Sean Penn's cigarette smoke. "Could Bob Ferguson not simply generate the correct password to satisfy Comrade Josh? Paul, you must admit you cannot spell 'Mexican hairless' without AI."
Weapons star Josh Brolin, who previously worked with del Toro on the 1997 insect horror movie Mimic, approached his table later in the night, appearing to talk del Toro off the ledge. "AI isn't monstrous like the onscreen monsters we fought making Mimic," Brolin explained. "AI is monstrous like the offscreen monsters we fought making Mimic."
"Ah, AI is the rare bad kind of monster!" del Toro exclaimed. "Like Bob and Harvey Weinstein."
At press time del Toro had resumed shitting on generative-AI. The Bush I hid in for this scoop was a remarkably lifelike latex Jeb Bush costume. Please clap for intrepid journalism.
