Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher enjoy stroll in London after AI comments (2024)

Mila Kunis andAshton Kutcherwere seen for the first time since he was slammedfor saying AI will 'be able to render a whole movie' leading many to come to the defense of the film industry.

The 40-year-old Black Swan actress and 46-year-oldDude Where's My Car alumwere recently seen on a relaxing casual stroll through Regents Park in London.

The two looked to be getting their endorphins up as they enjoyed the walk with coffee in hand.

Mila donned a pale orange hoodie with ripped light blue jeans and white New Balance running shoes.

Her brunette tresses were worn down as she sported brown sunglasses over her face which did not have a a swipe of make-up on it.

Ashton donned a black blazer over a grey sweater and white T-shirt along with baggy grey trousers and black running shoes.

He also wore a black baseball cap as he had a pensive look on his face.

The walk came just days after he facedbacklash for his recent remarks about the benefits ofAI in filmmaking.

Ashton had suggested that entire movies could be produced using Sora, OpenAI’s latest generative video tool, during a recent discussion with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, per Variety.

'You’ll be able to render a whole movie,' the actor began. 'You’ll just come up with an idea for a movie, then it will write the script, then you’ll input the script into the video generator and it will generate the movie.'

He added: 'Instead of watching some movie that somebody else came up with, I can just generate and then watch my own movie.

Critics were quick to call out the Hollywood star for suggesting that the movie-making magic could be left up to a computer.

'Imagine being Ashton Kutcher stepping onto a film set now, after coming out and advocating for all those crew people to lose their jobs and f***ing starve,' wrote one detractor. 'Gutsy choice, bud.'

Another follower on X shared, 'It’s such an ignorant, shortsighted, selfcentered, shortterm cost vs longterm gain mindset. You’re training it to replace YOU. And your kid’s dreams.'

'When you take ANY humans off of a collaborative and creative pursuit you literally lose the humanity,' wrote another. 'A hollow, dumbass, pointless shell. TV will have the same artistic merit as dish soap.'

A few fans even took swipes at the actor's resume, which includes such films as Just Married, No Strings Attached and The Butterfly Effect.

'You could probably make an Ashton Kutcher movie with OpenAI’s Sora, but you couldn’t make a good movie with it,' posted a follower.

Another chimed in, 'I’d rather render a whole different Ashton Kutcher.'

During the chat with Schmidt, Kutcher said he played around with the Sora program and found that 'you can generate any footage that you want.'

'You can create good 10, 15-second videos that look very real,' he continued. 'It still makes mistakes. It still doesn’t quite understand physics. … But if you look at the generation of this that existed one year ago as compared to Sora, it’s leaps and bounds.

'In fact, there’s footage in it that I would say you could easily use in a major motion picture or a television show.'

Kutcher added, 'Why would you go out and shoot an establishing shot of a house in a television show when you could just create the establishing shot for $100? To go out and shoot it would cost you thousands of dollars.

'Action scenes of me jumping off of this building, you don’t have to have a stunt person go do it, you could just go do it [with AI].'

He went on to describe how a prompt involving a marathoner running through a sandstorm, which would typically demand extensive CGI, could be generated with ease.

'In five minutes, it rendered a video of an ultra-marathoner being chased across the desert by a sandstorm, and it looks exactly like that.'

He went on to say that eventually there will be more content than people to watch it, making the value of any content dependent on its ability to attract viewers.

'And so, thus the catalyzing "water cooler" version of something being good, the bar is going to have to go way up, because why are you going to watch my movie when you could just watch your own movie?' Kutcher added.

The star's comments come a week afterNetflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos attempted to refute claims that AI poses a threat to Hollywood's creative jobs, per Deadline.

'I have more faith in humans than that. I really do. I don’t believe that an A.I. program is going to write a better screenplay than a great writer, or is going to replace a great performance, or that we won’t be able to tell the difference,' he told The New York Times.

'A.I. is not going to take your job. The person who uses A.I. well might take your job.'

He added: 'A.I. is a natural kind of advancement of things that are happening in the creative space today, anyway.

'Writers, directors, editors will use A.I. as a tool to do their jobs better and to do things more efficiently and more effectively, and in the best case, to put things onscreen that would be impossible to do.'