Sharon Stone and Keke Palmer Are Unimpressed by Generative AI

No offense to Marty, but it’s nice seeing some creatives respond to generative AI with hand-waving and disinterest. In their “Actors on Actors” interview, Euphoria star Sharon Stone and The Burbs star Keke Palmer both told Variety that they have no interest in using AI for creative endeavors. “I’m not a person who uses that stuff,” Stone confirmed. “I am a person who has the 20-volume annotated dictionaries. I love researching on the internet, but to me, AI’s a cover band. That’s all it’s got. It’s never going to be the Rolling Stones; it’s always going to be somebody singing the Rolling Stones. It’s never going to be me doing a performance; it’s going to be somebody faking me doing a performance. You’re never going to get my crazy idea of the day, which is always going to be better, because it’s going to be — guess what? — new. That’s what makes me interesting. I have new ideas.”

Palmer agreed. “At the end of the day, the human mind, the people who have visions every day, that comes from spirit,” she said, also mentioning the impact AI has on the environment. “The climate stuff is worrying and concerning, but then there’s the reality that it’s not going anywhere. So I find myself trying to figure out how to be prepared, how to create things that protect the environment, be a part of things that are making it ethical. But I’m also understanding how it’s democratizing a lot of spaces for people who otherwise couldn’t reach them. So it’s weird. It can be so positive, but it also can be so damaging.” One thing’s for sure, and that’s that AI could never come up with “Baby, this is Keke Palmer.”