Lisa Kudrow Criticizes Tom Hanks’ De-Aging Movie ‘Here’ as ‘Endorsement for AI’: ‘What Work Will There Be for Human Beings?’

Lisa Kudrow slams Tom Hanks’ movie flop ‘Here’ as ‘endorsement for AI’

Moviegoers didn’t exactly flock to see Here, Tom Hanks’ recent reunion with his Forrest Gump co-star Robin Wright and director Robert Zemeckis. But that didn’t stop Lisa Kudrow from finding fault with the Oscar winner’s embrace of de-aging technology for the drama.

Lisa Kudrow reacts to the use of AI in Tom Hanks' movie 'Here'

The film uses AI technology to de-age Hanks and co-star Robin Wright.

Artificial intelligence is wreaking havoc. This discipline of computing – which seeks to create machines capable of performing tasks that require human intelligence – encompasses a wide variety of subfields ranging from learning and perception to more specific ones such as voice recognition, poetry writing and disease diagnosis. Because of its scope and the replacement of human activities, it has generated great controversy in society. Such was …

Lisa Kudrow was also grossed out by Robert Zemeckis’ Here

There weren't many fans of Robert Zemickis' filmed play, Here. While Zemeckis was nice enough to keep this one from being a full-on Christmas movie, which is what doomed us to 20 years of people insisting that The Polar Express is watchable, Here is plenty weird to look at. Most of that comes from the bizarre decision to use generative AI to cut and paste Tom Hanks' and Robin Wright's old faces onto their current ones. Like every Zemeckis specia…

Lisa Kudrow Not Happy With Tom Hanks Film Here Using AI: 'What Work Will There Be For Human Beings?'

Lisa Kudrow is not an advocate of AI in films. The No Good Deed star recently appeared on the "Armchair Expert" podcast and criticized Robert Zemeckis' latest directorial effort, in 'Here'.

The actress expressed her concern for the future of actors, as artificial intelligence is also used in the entertainment industry.