Simu Liu explains that replacing background actors with AI deprives people of the ability to pick up skills to become an actor. “I think if I was able to learn from that experience [as a background actor], then how many other people are doing the same? In depriving the world of background actors, you’re also depriving people the opportunity to kind of pick up these skills… Film is such an artist’s medium. Of all the uses of AI that have come forth, replacing art is just, I feel like, the last thing that anybody wants to do with AI. I feel like art is art because it’s human. It comes down to even the way that extras move…it all plays into the frame, and it’s all meaningful to the story” (Source: Deadline)