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The actor told an audience in London that AI was a “burning issue” for actors.

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[-] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Studios basically want to own the personas of their actors so they can decouple the actual human from it and just use their images. There's been a lot of weird issues with this already in videogames with body capture and voice acting, and contracts aren't read through properly or the wording is vague, and not all agents know about this stuff yet. It's very dystopian to think your whole appearance and persona can be taken from you and commodified. I remember when Tupac's hologram performed at Coachella in 2012 and thinking how fucked up that was. You have these huge studios and event promoters appropriating his image to make money, and an audience effectively watching a performance of technological necromancy where a dead person is re-animated.

[-] Metatronz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Did Tupac's estate agree? Or receive compensation?

[-] Glytch@ttrpg.network 18 points 1 year ago

Who cares if his estate agreed to it? HE didn't. His estate shouldn't have the right to make money off of things he never actually did.

Let the dead stay dead, it's just an excuse to not pay new, living artists.

[-] hyperhopper@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

That's literally how estates work.

Once I'm 6 feet under, if it could give my family a better life I'd say they should be able to agree to whatever they want on my behalf as long as it doesn't go against my will.

[-] Glytch@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago

I know that legally they have the right. I'm saying they shouldn't have that right because reanimating a digital facsimile of your corpse just to puppet it to make money is fucked up. This includes shit like the CG Tarkin and Leia in Star Wars as well as the Tupac hologram

[-] hyperhopper@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm saying it's not fucked up and I would be totally down for my family to do it

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It took me a minute to realize that you said Tupac, not Tuvok.

[-] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Great, another holodeck episode...

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