Tidligere på året kom skuespilleren Timothée Chalamet i lidt problemer online, efter at han kom med kommentarer, der tilsidesatte vigtigheden af opera og ballet i det moderne samfund. "I don't want to be working in ballet or opera, or things where it's like, 'Hey, keep this thing alive.' Even though it's like, no one cares about this anymore," sagde Chalamet og det vakte vrede hos fans af begge kunstformer.
I en samtale med The New York Times tog skuespillerinden Charlize Theron afstand fra Chalamens udtalelser og sagde, at selvom det, han laver, kan erstattes, så er ballet og opera det ikke. "I hope I run into him one day. That was a very reckless comment on an art form, two art forms, that we need to lift up constantly because, yes, they do have a hard time. But in 10 years, AI is going to be able to do Timothée's job, but it will not be able to replace a person on a stage dancing live," sagde hun.
Theron fortsatte: "And we shouldn't sh*t on other art forms. Dance taught me discipline. It taught structure. It taught hard work. It taught me to be tough. It's borderline abusive. There were several times that I had blood infections from blisters that just never healed. And you don't get a day off. I'm literally talking about bleeding through your shoes. And that's something that you have to practice every single day, the mind-set of just, you don't give up, there's no other option, you keep going."
Det er let at forstå, hvor Theron kommer fra, men måske vil AI-kommentaren kun skabe lignende modreaktioner som Chalamets eget udbrud. Ingen er fan af, at job bliver erstattet af AI, undtagen tech-folkene, der laver AI'en, så at håbe på en fremtid, hvor Chalamet er ude og AI er inde, vil måske ikke være populært.