He said he used it mostly for research.Then, he was offered and later agreed to portray the OpenAI – the company behind the AI tech – head, Sam Altman, in Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial.The Amazing Spider-Man star acknowledged that his views on the technology shifted dramatically.“I got a bit scared,” he told Variety while appearing at the New York Film Festival.“I felt a little mistrusting of the technology.
It feels like the people who are encouraging us to use the technologies don’t exactly know their capacities themselves.""That feels a little irresponsible to me personally," he noted.Garfield also added, “Luckily, I don’t need [ChatGPT] in my life in the same way that other people in other industries might."“As an actor, I was using it as a kind of fancy Google for some research purposes.
I know that it’s not what it’s meant for," he said.
Andrew Garfield turned against ChatGPT after playing Sam Altman October 7, 2026.

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