Charlize Theron Says ‘In 10 Years, AI Is Going to Be Able to Do’ Timothée Chalamet’s Job, but it ‘Will Not Be Able to Replace’ Live Performance Like Ballet

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The real question is will the customer pay $20 to see a film entirely generated by AI with no human actors made for a small fraction of the cost of a normal film? Or to phrase it another way how stupid do they think we are?

Why does she say Timothees job but not her job lol

OMFG are we STILL on this shit??

It's weird how we have so many ballet and opera supporters once he said that.

There appears to be a great push towards normalizing AI slop. It's like too many people massively invested in it and are getting desperate to see some profitability. How strange

You’d think Chalamet killed someone the way people have been going on about that comment for so long. 

People don’t want to watch ballet now, they expecting a resurgence in 10 years?

Might be the weirdest possible take on this situation, congrats Charlize

Oh we’re still talking about this? Ok

He just said he doesn't want to do an art where you have to beg the public to care. He didn't say it wasn't hard. He didn't say it was worthless. He just wants to make art that is popular. Which is also why Charlize is an actor and not a dancer

This whole discussion ended up being more annoying than anything Timothée said, am i supposed to believe that everyone and their mother cares so much about ballet to the point where we need to repeat the same discussion, same arguments, a month after the fact? I mean really who gives a f*** at this point? Performative bullshit

Nobody was talking about ballet until Tim said something so all these ballet fan celebrities should be thanking him, again it’s more people upset with Tim over his comments than the actors who are Woody Allen apologists

This is such a ridiculous take on his words and people won't shut the Hell up about it.

She is 4 weeks late for this conversation.

Holy f*** we’re still on this?

> When Theron was asked about the major mental challenges of her past roles, the action star said, “Dance is probably one of the hardest things I ever did. Dancers are superheroes. What they put their bodies through in complete silence.” > Interviewer Lulu Garcia-Navarro then alluded to Chalamet’s now infamous “ballet or opera” statement, to which Theron replied, “Oh, boy, I hope I run into him one day. That was a very reckless comment on an art form, two art forms, that we need to lift up constantly because, yes, they do have a hard time. But in 10 years, AI is going to be able to do Timothée’s job, but it will not be able to replace a person on a stage dancing live.” > She continued, “And we shouldn’t [expletive] on other art forms. Dance taught me discipline. It taught structure. It taught hard work. It taught me to be tough. It’s borderline abusive. There were several times that I had blood infections from blisters that just never healed. And you don’t get a day off. I’m literally talking about bleeding through your shoes. And that’s something that you have to practice every single day, the mind-set of just, you don’t give up, there’s no other option, you keep going.”

Doesn't that mean it will also do Charlize Theron's job as well since she is also an actress? What a dumb statement.

Someone tell Charlize Theron she’s a bit late to the party on this topic.

Ballet is a dying art. This virtue signaling shit over ballet and opera has been wild to see.

“that we need to lift up constantly because, yes, they do have a hard time.” So, what he said yeah?

Those Chinese robots did quite the acrobatics recently.

Still talking about this?

They're already experimenting with robot stunt... Err... People..., I imagine robot ballerinas are closer than she thinks 

Dang leave him alone already lol. I like the opera too but it wasn't that serious

You are a bit late to the party, gurl

Are we still on this little comment Chalamet made? Who gives a shit. Yeah Ballerinas will still be able to do it ten years from now and very few people will still go and see it. People were just waiting to turn on someone whose incredibly talented and successful; America loves seeing someone whose had it a little too good get knocked down a peg for a minute

It’s always interesting to see who actually watches an interview and who comments on a topic based purely on the headlines they saw. 

If AI development continues, it'll eventually be able to do everything. Thats the the whole point of AGI. Now, whether or not most people will want to consume entirely AI generated content is the important question.

She hasn’t seen the shit China is doing with robots. In 10 years I wouldn’t be surprised if they looked human.

As others have said, robots or even more cheaply, projections could replace live performances. The bigger question is: who would care? Who would want to watch an AI performance live or otherwise. It’s soulless and easy, what’s the point? I mean it can look pretty, but like, so what? Once it’s ubiquitous, pretty is meaningless. Human art will still have meaning, even if just in our hearts

In a world where society has accepted AI as a replacement for real actors on a large scale, the standards for art and culture would have fallen so far that something like live ballet would surely be dead as well. Same with live music, theatre, etc. All real art and performance would be gone by this point.

Nah, AI sucks. It’ll never be able to fully replace humans EDIT: this was written with AI

Wait, doesn’t Charlize Theron and Timothee Chalamet have the same job. Hahaha what f****** world are we living in?!?

Ai won’t be able to make someone as naturally beautiful as either Charlize or Timothee though.

No it won’t. It will get 99% of the way there, but that final 1% is the difference between humanity and machine. The human mind will ALWAYS be able to tell it’s fake. Just like how Meta will NEVER be able to replicate the oasis from ready player one. Our minds can tell it isn’t real and we reject it.

I dont care what your ai can replicate. I aint buying your slop.

Absolutely guarantee robot ballet will be a thing.

People are still talking about this??

Not even picking sides with the Timmy ballet thing but she is just hilariously wrong. We are far closer to a lifeless machine being able to physically mimic human movement if not out perform it in 10 years especially on specialized task. But to get all the nuances of acting and all the emotional control and complex narratives and voice infections and soo on. If Charlize was trying to defend ballet as some holy art form she is doing a good job of accidently showing it may be one of the easiest art forms to produce non organically... Which I feel could add even more fuel to this wierd fire.

Could Hollywood actors please get off this ballet bullshit? It was a smear campaign designed to cost Chalamet the Oscar. It worked. Please move on.

Are we still milking this story? He was trying to say he didnt want Cinema to become a dead or pretentious artwork, which Ballet absolutely is.

I feel like the uproar to all of this is proof that he was right. If Ballet was so great they wouldn’t even respond to this shit

Still on the ballet thing? Get over it

Ok, how about in 15 years, though?

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I feel like ai can replace live performance like ballet also. With the way that ai is advancing over the years and even months, ai can pretty much take over the entertainment industry and other industries and nobody can do a thing about it

Way to center him out.

Although the controversy has gone on a bit too long and I don't think AI is that big of a threat (like everything, you have to find the right balance, otherwise it's just a technological development like CGI, etc.), you're not entirely wrong. They are live art forms.

everyone saw those layoffs that just happened. companies are looking to cut costs with AI, people aren’t going to the movie theater as much, and they need to make their money. AI is gonna be a real deal for entertainment

People still mad at him over that?

I do not like chalamet ,and his words were quite dumb but I'm I the only one who feels that insane prolonged backlash is seriously overdone . Like yes he did say dumb shit ,but are we going to headline it every day like he killed someone?

It can already do Charlize’s job as she plays the same role as cold, angry woman in every movie.

That’s a pretty good burn honestly lol.

I hate when unc thinks she knows

Jesus Christ, isnt that the whole point of what Chalamet was saying, that he fears cinema becoming a dying art form and now Charlize thinks cinema is gonna a dying art form in 10 years. How are these rich celebs who can afford lavish ballets and plays such sourpusses about the mildest insult.

Are people still upset about his ballet comments?

I mean that’s fine but that doesn’t mean anybody is going to go to the ballet because of it.

Is she saying his work is ass? 

They took a 10-second clip of a guy being honest about market trends and turned it into a month-long advertisement for why people find the "fine arts" community exhausting.

Is she only saying this just to get on Timmy’s nerves?

Virtue signaled so hard that she’s trying to replace her job with AI to prove that Ballet and Opera are better art forms.

If even a quarter of the people who have come out vigorously defending ballet and opera actually attended these shows then Chalamet probably wouldn’t have said what he did.

We are still talking about this ?

Damn just keep beating up on the guy that said what most the population already thinks.

Oh my sweet summer child

I don't think it's right for other actors to c*** on other actors. I know the interviewer brought him up but Theron could've just avoided it. They are all in this together.

Nah, I dont think AI ever will. Its still comically bad at doing any sort of acting that needs human emotions

In her 45 minute interview, she spent less than 10 seconds in total on this topic after the interviewer made a remark indicating his public opinion on dance (she was a professional dancer). This article and the post are pure click bate designed to insight you. To all the top comments fueling the “debate,” you’re being played.

Why was this technology let loose on society without regulation. It has been a negative for so many types of jobs

Doesn't she have the same job?

We get it, ballet is an amazing art form with a long tradition. But modern ballet is culturally irrelevant. The majority of people do not go to see it. Or Opera. And even just theater, though of the 3 that has thr hughest uptake. It would be a crime if the same happened to cinema. In the west, cinema is a common uniting experience. It would be tragic for that to be lost.

It’s crazy how every person on earth loves ballet apparently, and yet I’ve never met someone in my life who talked about the ballet they saw the night before.

Wack him again Charlize

He really let his ego show with that one and I’m glad no one is letting him get away with it.

Ironically cinema replaced ballet and plays

There still going on about this uh

Well no one is gonna do AI ballet since there’s barely any market for ballet these days

Probably her job first because she’ll be unemployable.

Theron just says shit to sound cool. She said she knew her kid was trans when they were like 2-3 years old and bragged about how she had an awesome time sleeping with some 25 year old. Now she’s going for easy brownie points getting in on this nonsense.

Nobody gives a f*** about Ballet, Charlize. Being butthurt doesn't make Mr. Chardonnay wrong.