Australian filmmaker Alex Proyas has known as out Elon Musk for stealing his designs for a brand new line of Tesla robots.
Final week, Musk and Tesla unveiled two new self-driving car prototypes: the Cybercab and Robovan at an occasion titled We, Robotic. Additionally current on the presentation was an autonomous robotic, Optimus, that was able to making and handing out drinks and was entertaining visitors.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 11, 2024
Proyas caught wind of the showcase, and determined to name out Musk for all three designs – that are admittedly strikingly just like the ideas used for his hit 2004 sci-fi movie I, Robotic.
On X (previously Twitter), which is owned by Musk, Proyas shared a submit evaluating the designs from his movie and the Tesla robots side-by-side, revealing their similarities. He wrote: “Hey Elon, can I’ve my designs again please?”.
Hey Elon, Can I’ve my designs again please? #ElonMusk #Elon_Musk pic.twitter.com/WPgxHevr6E
— Alex Proyas (@alex_proyas) October 13, 2024
Proyas isn’t the one one vocalising the similarities between designs. On social media, many customers have been evaluating Tesla’s new line of robotics to the enduring 2004 Will Smith movie.
See some reactions under.
2004 I robotic (film) ~ 2024 we robotic (actuality)#Optimus #tesla pic.twitter.com/L1LesWZiOB
— Ilyas (@Iliyas_fls92) October 11, 2024
Sure. Been saying this for two days, all musk’s designs regarded straight out of I, Robotic. He thinks he is the top of U.S. Robotics
— Robert Klein (@rklein7777) October 14, 2024
Throughout the entire Tesla occasion all I may take into consideration is I,Robotic! Every thing Tesla introduced is sort of similar to the film pic.twitter.com/4qQc2PZCGe
— MilesAboveTech (@milesabovetech) October 11, 2024
I, Robotic – set in 2035 Chicago – the movie sees a futuristic world that’s extremely reliable on robotics and androids to tackle public service jobs. Will Smith stars as a technologically averse detective who grows suspicious of 1 specific android after the alleged suicide of a founding father of a robotics conglomerate.
Because the rise of AI in recent times, a number of actors and administrators have voiced their considerations for the expertise getting used to create, and even exchange, key human elements within the movie and TV trade.
Tim Burton in September final 12 months known as the usage of AI “disturbing”: “I can’t describe the sensation it provides you. It jogged my memory of when different cultures say, ‘Don’t take my image as a result of it’s taking away your soul.’ “What it does is it sucks one thing from you. It takes one thing out of your soul or psyche; that may be very disturbing, particularly if it has to do with you. It’s like a robotic taking your humanity, your soul.”
Earlier final 12 months, Wes Anderson denounced AI recreations of his work: “If any person sends me one thing like that I’ll instantly erase it and say, ‘Please, sorry, don’t ship me issues of individuals doing me.’
Earlier this month, actor Rachel Zegler voice her considerations of being changed by AI: “I used to be actually petrified of being changed by a synthetic intelligence model of myself that they scanned after I was 18 after which by no means with the ability to work on a set once more. What was stopping them from utilizing that for the remainder of my life?” She went to say that “465 images taken of each nook of my physique” have been made for CGI stunts. “It was fucking dystopian,” she added.
Her feedback got here after Guillermo del Toro additionally lately spoke out about AI, claiming it could actually do “semi-compelling screensavers” and “that’s basically that”.
