Andrew Garfield was once one of ChatGPT’s 1.2 billion users. That was before he played OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Luca Guadagnino’s “Artificial,” which centers on the company’s origin story and Altman’s dramatic 2023 outing (the board reinstated him just five days later). Working on the film led Garfield to dump the chatbot altogether.
\n\n“I got a bit scared,” he told Variety at the “Artificial” premiere at the New York Film Festival. “I felt a little mistrusting of the technology. It feels like the people who are encouraging us to use the technologies don’t exactly know its capacities themselves. That feels a little irresponsible, to me personally.”The tech company has faced public backlash over its ambitions to rapidly advance artificial intelligence without taking ample time to address safety concerns, the primary conflict explored in “Artificial.” OpenAI has also faced a series of hurdles over the past six months, including the shutdown of its generative-AI video app Sora and heightened industry scrutiny after a former Anthropic employee warned that AI companies are “gambling with our lives.”
\n\n“Luckily, I don’t need [ChatGPT] in my life in the same way that other people in other industries might,” Garfield explained. “As an actor, I…
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