Director of the film "Backrooms": AI is cultural and economic decay

The director of the film "Backrooms," Kane Parsons, has criticized artificial intelligence (AI), calling it "cultural and economic decay."

The YouTuber-turned-filmmaker, who found success with his debut horror film, "Backrooms," has joined the debate about the role of AI technology in the future of the film industry. In an interview with The Australian, he made his stance on the technology clear.

"I think I'm on the same page as most reasonable people. If I could snap my fingers and make generative AI disappear forever, I probably would. Creatively, using these tools doesn't give me any satisfaction. To me, it completely defeats the purpose of creation," he said.

"What I'm more interested in is re-examining it artistically. We already live in a world where you go outside and you see billboards and advertisements that clearly appear to be poor quality AI content. It's become part of our visual reality. To me, generative AI seems less like an innovation and more like a symptom of a broader cultural and economic decline," Parsons added.

"I'm interested in using that iconography in art - not using AI to create the art itself, but exploring what it represents. I definitely want to do more of that in future projects," the 20-year-old filmmaker said.

Artificial intelligence remains a controversial topic in many industries, and in Hollywood there are fears that it could lead to the suppression of human creativity from the filmmaking process.