Sadly, I think they will get them, one way or another.

All it will take is a handful of people desperate for money agreeing to be 3d scanned, and maybe a few months of interns saying yes/no to particular faces, and bam, hundreds of extras ready to be used and abused for decades to cover.

I find it hard to believe that an industry that uses the Wilhelm scream repeatedly, everywhere, for over 70 years would suddenly want to reuse AI generated extras…

It’s like that black mirror episode with Ann Murphy salma hayeck

You know what? Make a new hollywood with real writers and real actors, lets see how long an AI trained on stale old stuff is going to be at creating a cohesive story with genuine emotion.

I understand what bard, chatgpt, the image one can do but these are not going to break new frontiers anytime soon - the free market will sort it out im tired or the same old shit regurgitated in new formats because fucking execs are too scared to try anything new.

Uncanny vally is going to make this fun.

Note that what they're really interested in here is a fundamental change in how extras work. They want to turn it from an industry that hires early/struggling actors and turns it into the sort of thing that a college student can get one-time emergency money from. Akin to selling blood or eggs.

At that point, why license the likeness of real people instead of just using an AI generated face?

"We can't figure out a way to make money without owning your body," - Rugged entrepreneurs

Note that though AI is the new hotness and grabs headlines, this a) doesn't actually apply only to AI and b) has been done for at least a decade.

Many actors have refused such clauses (I know Sam Jackson is one of them) but many have not.

Putting actor's faces on CGI bodies has been something Hollywood has been working on for a long time, and AI is just a tool that improves on what we've been doing for a while.

Remember that commercial where Fred Astaire danced with a fucking vacuum cleaner?

The idea of someone using “me” in that way would, by itself, be enough for me to strongly oppose the idea.

It's wonderful that Netflix is one of the corporations pushing to own a person's AI likeness forever.

Fran is saying we’re all going to be replaced by machines as if it’s the future but it’s being going on for a lot longer than now. Digidoubles replacing main actors a has been a mainstay in action movies for well over a decade.

When it comes to AI, It’s been tearing at the base of art (in general) for years before now. One of the more recent cases https://news.artnet.com/art-world/class-action-lawsuit-ai-generators-deviantart-midjourney-stable-diffusion-2246770

One of the reasons I’m excited about the fediverse is it means we can potentially have a server that artists can share their work safe away from the trawling AI machine.

"across the universe and for all eternity" was the wording if I recall correctly.

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences...

This is why Jet Li turned down the Matrix. He didn't want his Kung Fu skills to be scanned and preserved in the WB archive.