“Shazam!” star Zachary Levi issued a stark warning about the new Google AI video generator, Veo 3, and said this isn’t just a threat to people in Hollywood but to potentially every industry.
During a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” the host was asking Levi about Veo 3, which has the ability, he said, to generate sound effects and dialogue. Beck asked the 44-year-old actor if it meant the death of Hollywood.
Levi has been warning in the last few years about the coming flood of AI and what it could mean to Hollywood and the entertainment industry. He said he’s “very concerned” about it, and “everyone should be.”
“I hate to sound like a doomer and gloomer, but this is something I’ve been foreseeing for a really long time,” the actor said. “I’ve been banging this drum for a really long time and trying to wake people up and say, ‘Hey, listen, technology — it moves exponentially.'”
“This is one of the things that I think most people just don’t understand, whether it’s people in my industry or other industries,” he added. “This is knocking on the doorstep of entertainment right now. But understand that AI is knocking on the doorstep of all of our industries.”
“But every industry. I mean, we are — there are huge, you know, experts in many fields that say, within a year, two years, you start with five years, every white-collar job will be gone,” Levi continued. “And a lot of blue-collar jobs are going to be right behind that because you have to recognize that AI is not just moving exponentially, but also humanoid robots, and the development of humanoid robots is developing exponentially. And exponential growth is something that people just don’t understand.”
During the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike in 2023, the actor warned that AI would soon consume jobs in his industry and more.
“So know that, as Hollywood, we’re asking you guys to support us as humans because very quickly, even if we get great contracts in this round, a few years from now, AI is going to be so good that you won’t be able to tell the difference.
“So in Hollywood, it’s specifically hitting us in the creative world. But just so you know, not trying to be doomsday — but also, it is,” he added. “You guys have to make sure that you’re aware in your own industries, in your own jobs. Look at where technology is going because eventually it will come for us all, so we have to support each other.”
RedState recently wrote about the new Google video AI technology, stating that it’s hard to see how it’s not giving Hollywood anxiety, given its realistic look and ability to introduce sound and dialogue.
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Brandon Morse wrote that:
I’ve said repeatedly that AI will be the end of Hollywood, and in just a few short years, AI has become so good that we’re on the verge of private major motion picture creation straight from your home computer, or even phone.
I think the one thing holding it back at this time is still the clunkiness of AI creation. You can create things with prompts, but it often requires many tries before you get close to something you want. Understand that this, too, will be improved upon, and soon detailed control will be available so you can get the scenes just right.
I anticipate that in five years, you’ll see people begin rolling out movies and even episodic shows that are all AI generated, appearing on platforms like YouTube and generating followings like legacy media shows used to.
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