Artificial Intelligence

AI Actress to Star in First Film

Is this an existential threat to actors or a disruption that the industry brought on itself?

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Above: An audience in a movie theater looking at a monitor. Image credit: Unsplash

The Spin

Narrative A

Casting an AI performer as a film's lead is a direct threat to working actors, built on training data scraped without consent or compensation. SAG-AFTRA's tentative deal with studios does nothing to stop the real harm. Something must be done, as these lackluster protections allow studios to continue creating synthetic performers at will.

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Narrative B

Hollywood has zero credibility lecturing anyone about authenticity when A-list actors are surgically and digitally altering their faces. AI characters like Norwood are also no different from CGI icons like Buzz Lightyear or Netflix resurrecting Gene Wilder's voice with AI for a new Willy Wonka production.

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