Forget “Scream 7” — Hollywood’s scariest movie this year is a 15 second video clip showing Lakers player Peyton Meyer dunking the ball in a packed stadium, then staring down a rival player on the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The jump scare awaiting actors across Tinseltown: Meyer isn’t a Lakers player, he’s an actor, the ESPN-quality clip is entirely AI generated, and Meyer didn’t so much as set foot in front of camera to create it.
It offers perhaps the most chilling glimpse yet of how unnecessary humans may have become in the AI age.
So why would “He’s All That” star Meyer help platform Flik.Ai — which claims to have a 50,000-person waiting list — to show off just how impressively it could replace actors?
“As an actor, it’s pretty scary to see how fast AI is evolving,” Meyer told Page Six, “I think it’s important to run towards change, not away from it.”
He added, “I mean… I’m 5’10”, I can’t dunk a basketball, but Flik let me see what that looked like. It was funny; it made people laugh. It’s our job as actors to entertain. Anything that allows more creativity in our world…I’ll give it a chance. At the end of the day, AI is reactive; it waits for us to give it a direction. So let’s give it something good.”
