Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says he will never be interested in using AI-generated video as a tool in his movies, even joking that he hopes to pass away before he develops any curiosity about the technology.

In an interview with NPR , the Oscar-winning director of Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of Water (as well as popular fare Hellboy and Pacific Rim ) likens the “arrogance” of “tech bros” like Sam Altman and Elon Musk (of OpenAI and xAI, respectively) to Victor Frankenstein, the creator of a reanimated human in his latest movie Frankenstein .

Interviewer Terry Gross broaches the subject, searching for a parallel in the story’s para-human creation, played by actor Jacob Elordi, and del Toro shares his doubt that untold levels of programmed information can capture “the

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