Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever

I wonder what the future is gonna hold for famous people. There's gonna come a time when a rando dev can just press a button and a beautiful, funny, and any other-positive-quality-you-could-want person will be generated. This person will never commit a sex crime, will never say a racist remark, never do anything controversial. I imagine once that happens that's just kinda it for famous people who represent a brand.

AI is just going to be the next way that we're all gonna get fucked over and exploited by the mega rich. What a future...

Sigh... Guess we gotta copyright the human body and face. I fucking hate this timeline.

in her opening statement of the press conference, SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher said that “If we don’t stand tall right now, we are all going to be in trouble, we are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines.”

The Nanny, comin in hot! Fran Drescher has always been cool as hell, I didn't realize shit was the president of SAG-AFTRA!

Don't we already have pretty robust laws when it comes to person's likeness?

I presume most contracts cover this aspect mainly for the purposes of marketing and future references. Of course the actors probably didn't expect the extent the current technology could allow their likeness to be exploited.

It would probably make sense to require more specific contracts for this purpose, and have previously signed general contracts become insufficient for using actors' likeness for this purpose.

Creepy ass motherfuckers. You'd almost have to be a studio exec to think this is even something you should ask.

Salma Hayek is gonna be piiiiisssseeddd!!

No one saw “S1m0ne” 20 years ago because they thought it was too far fetched.

I think a time will come in our dystopian future where it will be trendy to have a performance by a real actor or a traditional painting created by a real artist ... that will be the gimmick, so to say.

I wonder who the last famous actor will be

Man, this is reminding of horror comic book story from like 40 years ago. Actress signs away the rights to her own appearance, has to be disfigured or something because she's no longer allowed to look like herself

I'm almost certain there was a movie like this. A guy create a AI celebrity and he fall in love with her. I believe he "kills" her in the end.

I don't remember if the public end up knowing if she was fake or not.

“The congress” is coming closer.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/152795-the-congress

I understand why some people might not like this movie. But I think about it a few times a week. And one major part of the scenario is about a famous actor giving her digital copy to a studio and the unforeseen consequences.

These mfers watched "Joan is Awful" from season 6 of Black Mirror and said. LETS DO THAT!!

The Critic did it instead of the Simpsons this time.

I wish I blogged about how I thought this would happen back when I first saw that Tupac hologram years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGbrFmPBV0Y

Nice thumbnail