{"id":243424,"date":"2026-07-15T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/george-lucas-likens-ai-sceptics-to-luddites-clinging-to-horses-and-carts-george-lucas\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:50:08","slug":"george-lucas-likens-ai-sceptics-to-luddites-clinging-to-horses-and-carts-george-lucas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/george-lucas-likens-ai-sceptics-to-luddites-clinging-to-horses-and-carts-george-lucas\/","title":{"rendered":"George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts | George Lucas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/jul\/15\/george-lucas-likens-ai-sceptics-to-luddites-clinging-to-horses-and-carts\">George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts | George Lucas<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/jul\/15\/george-lucas-likens-ai-sceptics-to-luddites-clinging-to-horses-and-carts\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/jul\/15\/george-lucas-likens-ai-sceptics-to-luddites-clinging-to-horses-and-carts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-15 08:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theguardian.com\">www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>George Lucas, director of Star Wars films, expresses support for AI&#8217;s role in moviemaking, suggesting it is an inevitable and progressive step for the future industry.<\/li>\n<li>Lucas&#8217;s perspective contrasts with high-profile director Christopher Nolan, who expresses a disdain for AI and refers to it as &#8216;AI slop&#8217;, indicating public rejection.<\/li>\n<li>Gareth Edwards, director of Rogue One and Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom, shares Lucas&#8217;s enthusiastic view, seeing AI as a beneficial tool in filmmaking.<\/li>\n<li>Steven Soderbergh shows a cautious viewpoint on AI, suggesting it&#8217;s neither the all-encompassing solution nor the end of traditional filmmaking methods, and might just be a passing trend.<\/li>\n<li>Lucas criticizes the film industry&#8217;s reliance on audience testing and focus groups, arguing that audiences often do not know what they truly want to see and that filmmakers should explore and challenge audience perceptions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts | George Lucas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e282eec9675257252fcdf9b3922b2512160b7cc0\/274_0_3885_3108\/master\/3885.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=e78ec7773f6ecf6d6c0fb1f7ffa35981","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243426,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243424\/revisions\/243426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}