Demi Moore Says Hollywood Should Work with AI, Not Fight It

Demi Moore drew online backlash after saying Hollywood's fight against artificial intelligence is already lost and the industry should work with the technology.

The actress made the comments during an appearance at the Cannes Film Festival. "Against-ness breeds against-ness. AI is here, and so to fight it is to, in a sense, to fight something that is a battle that we will lose. So to find ways in which we can work with it, I think, is a more valuable path," she said, according to Deadline. "Are we doing enough to protect ourselves? I don’t know ... My inclination would be to say probably not."

Her remarks sparked outrage on social media. Critics accused the Hollywood veteran of surrendering the future of filmmaking to Silicon Valley and corporate tech interests. One user wrote, "Demi Moore having the gall to speak this fascist propaganda of about it being useless to fight against AI, next to Park Chan-wook is wild to me if you understand anything about his work, and after her being in a film about how wealthy white men use women in the film industry."

Another commenter said, "Notice how they can never make an argument for why AI is good in itself, it's always that it's inevitable and we just have to accept that the future is slop."

A third accused Moore of sounding like a tech investor. "She sounds like an investor not an artist. Entirely out of touch with technology and art. 90s movie stars had it easy and became rich and retreated from caring about the sustainability of the business they helped f--- up."

Some users supported Moore and said the industry must adapt. "AI is the future of film. Those who don’t adopt it will fall behind," one wrote. Another added, "You can all be kneejerk against AI and still none of you can deliver the logical pathway against it. You aren't magically changing the minds of millions of people using it by posting virtue signalling comments against it."

"She’s correct. The genie isn’t going back in the lamp," a third posted.

Moore said machines have limits. "There’s beautiful aspects of being able to utilize it," she added, according to Deadline, "but the truth is, there really isn’t anything to fear, because what it can never replace is what true art comes from, which is not the physical. It comes from the soul."

She also addressed political speech in entertainment. Asked if political opinions could hurt films at Cannes, Moore replied, "I would hope not. I think part of art is about expression, so if we start censoring ourselves, then I think we shut down the very core of our creativity, which is, I think, where we can discover truth and answers."

Fox News Digital has reached out to Moore for comment.