Jodie Foster questions if Brad Pitt’s ‘F1’ was “made by AI”
Jodie Foster has questioned whether the 2025 blockbuster F1, starring Brad Pitt, was made with AI.
The film, directed by Joseph Kosinski, was one of the biggest box office success stories of last year, drawing in $634 million across the world.
Furthermore, it secured Academy Award nominations for ‘Best Picture’, ‘Best Film Editing’ and ‘Best Visual Effect’, as well as taking home the Oscar for ‘Best Sound’.
However, during a Who Owns the Future of Hollywood? discussion on June 30th in Colorado, Foster questioned whether the film was human-made, stating, “I don’t say this disparagingly — how could I? This movie went on to make millions of dollars. But I look at a movie like F1 and I’m like, F1 was made by AI.”
Foster elaborated, “Wasn’t it? I mean, the structure was exactly the structure that you would learn in school.”
She then said the “actors say the lines exactly the way it would be written if a computer was writing exactly what would be the right thing for that time”.
On the broader topic of technology, Foster said of its use in F1, “And they were able to dominate the technology to make something big and beautiful and potentially where a lot of the information comes from other places.”
Foster did admit to having fears that AI will be “getting rid of a lot of jobs” in Hollywood, but suggested, “Hopefully, things like unions will be able to come in and say, you can use my actor 20 times, but you’re going to pay him 20 times. And I think that’s fair.”
Nevertheless, she does believe there is room for AI in cinema, especially when it comes to “small helpful things”. Foster also highlighted how AI was used for a dream sequence in the 2025 film A Private Life, which she starred in, as a positive example of how it can work.
She believes it is down to filmmakers to “dominate AI”, adding, “We will be able to make things that reflect us, and we can make things better.”
On the topic of AI, Cate Blanchett recently co-founded a new website that allows actors to provide or withdraw their consent for their likenesses to be used by AI.
The website allows actors and artists to sign their names to the RSL Media Registry, which sets “machine-readable” permissions as to whether they consent to their likenesses being used for AI purposes or not.
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