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Leonardo DiCaprio Says AI Can Never Be Art Because It Lacks Humanity: Even ‘Brilliant’ Examples Just ‘Dissipate Into the Ether of Internet Junk’

December 8, 2025

Dec 8, 2025 12:36pm PT Leonardo DiCaprio Says AI Can Never Be Art Because It Lacks Humanity: Even ‘Brilliant’ Examples Just ‘Dissipate Into the Ether of Internet Junk’ By Zack Sharf Plus Icon Zack Sharf Digital News Director ZSharf Latest Leonardo DiCaprio Says AI Can Never Be Art Because It Lacks Humanity: Even ‘Brilliant’ Examples Just ‘Dissipate Into the Ether of Internet Junk’ 26 minutes ago Kate Winslet Says Plastic Surgery in Hollywood Is ‘Devastating’ and the ‘Disregard for One’s Health Is Terrifying’: ‘It’s F—ing Chaos Out There’ 4 hours ago Sydney Sweeney Says ‘I’m Against Hate’ and Reconsiders Staying Quiet on American Eagle Jeans Controversy: ‘My Silence Has Only Widened the Divide’ 2 days ago See All Gilbert Flores/Variety Leonardo DiCaprio expressed his doubts regarding AI taking over Hollywood during an interview with Time magazine, which has named the Oscar winner its entertainer of the year. While DiCaprio “mourns the fact that talented and experienced people could lose their jobs” because of AI, as reported by Time, he also believes AI is incapable of having humanity and thus can’t be “authentically” considered art. “It could be an enhancement tool for a young filmmaker to do something we’ve never seen before,” DiCaprio said of AI.

aprio at The 16th Governors Awards held at The Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood on November 16, 2025 in Los Angeles, California

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“I think anything that is going to be authentically thought of as art has to come from the human being.
Otherwise — haven’t you heard these songs that are mashups that are just absolutely brilliant and you go, ‘Oh my God, this is Michael Jackson doing the Weeknd,’ or ‘This is funk from the A Tribe Called Quest song “Bonita Applebum,” done in, you know, a sort of Al Green soul-song voice, and it’s brilliant.’ And you go, ‘Cool.’ But then it gets its 15 minutes of fame and it just dissipates into the ether of other internet junk.
There’s no anchoring to it.
There’s no humanity to it, as brilliant as it is.” Popular on Variety Related Stories Alex Warren on the Creation of ‘Ordinary’ and His Social-Media Campaign to Make the Song Go Viral Role Model Discusses His Breakthrough Year, From 'Sally' to Starring in Lena Dunham's New Rom-Com Many filmmakers in Hollywood have come out swinging against AI in recent weeks.
Guillermo del Toro made headlines at the Gotham Awards for saying “fuck AI.” Speaking to NPR a month prior, the Oscar winner said he’d rather die than have to use AI in his movies.

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