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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Hollywood AI Crisis: Will Artificial Intelligence Eliminate Acting & Jobs?

Variety: Filmmaker Justine Bateman doesn’t think there is a thriving future for actors in filmed entertainment as we know it. She believes that artificial intelligence will ultimately suck the creative marrow out of Hollywood.

1 comment:

Donald Duck said...

All of the AI talks within the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes has been really thought provoking and has generated a lot of opinions and questions in my mind. I don’t with some of the stances in this article that believe that AI could generate a whole script and have it be as good as a human writer, or generate an entire TV show or movie and have it look real. AI, atleast so far, has shown that it can’t generate emotion-provoking text that shows empathy or compassion and it can’t make realistic art yet. When AI is asked to generate a picture of a human, it usually messes up a lot of features that are more complex in the human body, such as hands, faces, and feet. On the other hand, I completely agree with what this articles has to say about background actors and digital scans of performers. When it comes to acting and being a celebrity, you face is kinda everything, so if a studio can just pay you a fraction of what they will earn from the scan and using a celebrity’s face whenever they want, then that is a huge problem.