(NewsNation) — Businessman turned actor Kevin O’Leary is chiming in on AI use in film, saying that his new movie “Marty Supreme” could have saved millions of dollars by using artificial intelligence instead of human extras.

O’Leary was on The Hill’s “World of Travel: The Podcast” where he talked about the Timothée Chalamet-led film vehicle, which is igniting Oscar buzz for the actor.

“Almost every scene had as many as 150 extras,” O’Leary told World of Travel. “Those people had to stay awake for 18 hours, fully dressed, moving around in the background — not even always visible on camera — and it cost millions of dollars to do that.”

The “Shark Tank” star, who plays Gwenyth Paltrow’s husband in the movie, said the production costs are outdated when AI can create realistic-looking backgro

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