Guillermo del Toro shared an emphatic message about artificial intelligence in filmmaking while accepting the Vanguard Tribute for “Frankenstein” at Monday night’s Gotham Awards: “Fuck AI.”

Flanked by stars Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac , de Toro opened his acceptance speech by paying homage to Mary Shelley’s immortal horror story. Del Toro said when he first picked up the book at age 11, he knew he would one day adapt it to film.

“I understood that back then, through her work and the first glimpse of Boris Karloff, that I did not belong in the world the way my parents, the way the world expected me to fit,” de Toro said. “That my place was in a faraway land inhabited only by monsters and misfits. They have been my kin ever since.”

He continued, “So to return to this tale now at 61

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