‘Family Ties’ star Justine Bateman says Hollywood's use of new tech is 'motivated by greed'

"Family Ties" star Justine Bateman is launching a new film festival that will require that entrants not use any artificial intelligence, as part of her ongoing pushback against the technology in Hollywood.

"I think they'll get to a point where the audiences will start feeling sick about it, and be bored with it, and also feel sick about how generative AI is infecting the rest of their lives…" "It's not the future. It's something that is going to increasingly occur in the future, but it's not the future of filmmaking."

"As we've seen over the last year, we've had a lot of streamers, embracing AI studios, embracing AI, and more recently, film festivals embracing AI. And I just feel like the use of generative AI is, it's theft, and you're never going to find out what you can really do. It's just a regurgitation of the past. You're sort of circling the drain," Bateman told Fox News Digital of her inspiration behind the festival. 

She continued, "It's not the future. It's something that is going to increasingly occur in the future, but it's not the future of filmmaking. The future of filmmaking is whatever this next genre is going to be. You know, we haven't really had a new genre in the arts of any real wide significance since the '90s. So, I think we're long due for that. And I believe it's going to happen on the other side of this AI inferno."