Artificial intelligence is the deadly syrup that will soon poison Hollywood
In his latest comments, the head of the Hollywood Actors Guild called artificial intelligence a “deadly syrup” and a “poison” that is poisoning the movie industry.
Charso Press: Fran Drescher, president of the Hollywood Actors’ Union, announced in the latest podcast of the union’s strike, which was released yesterday, that Hollywood’s potential abuse of artificial intelligence is a “deadly syrup” and “poison” that must be severely limited as soon as possible. .
Generative artificial intelligence, which is capable of writing scripts and digitally mimicking images of actors, stuntmen, and behind-the-scenes workers, has now become one of the serious issues of the Hollywood Actors and Writers Union.
Many of the union’s members have also been victims of prolific artificial intelligence “deepfakes,” in which their faces and voices have been imitated by a computer and placed on another person’s body, often on pornographic sites.
“When you have a combination of Wall Street, greed, technology, and smart kids who don’t think for themselves, you can make a deadly syrup that poisons everybody, and I don’t want us to drink that poison anymore,” Drescher says in the podcast. .
So we have to build a fence around this toxic compound and everyone has to know that we are dealing with a kind of dynamite and we have to handle this dynamite with great care and very strict rules and a lot of communication with the artists and getting their consent and paying them compensation. to be
Compensation and satisfaction. This is the name of this game. There is not much room to wade in this space. You must pay compensation and satisfy us, peace and blessings be upon you. Otherwise, we have nothing to lose. What do we have other than our face, gestures, acting and voice? These are the things we sell. This is what we are. They want to emulate these things with artificial intelligence. Everyone is watching this tragedy as a group, while this fight is over the livelihood of my union members.
Cutting our livelihood is not the solution to this problem. Dehumanizing this industry is not the solution, even if we are not careful, both of these things will happen, because we are dealing with people who don’t think, don’t care about others, and are extremely greedy.