Glenn Close acknowledged the ever-changing landscape of the entertainment industry during a stop in Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival.
AND Academy nominated The actress has been trying to keep her “balance” of late, ahead of celebrating Sundance Institute icon Michelle Satter at a gala fundraiser.
“I’m happy to have a job,” Close said The Hollywood Reporter. “So many people have already been impacted in LA, and then with the fires. I was amazed at how few jobs there are in our profession. I’m a big reader of history and unfortunately, I don’t think enough people in this country understand the history and what we’ve just become. pulled in.
“It’s on top of that [artificial intelligence]. What will be the truth? What is true will be the big question. “
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Glenn Close wonders how artificial intelligence will affect Hollywood. (Lexie Moreland)
Close said she recently finished reading A novel by Yuval Noah Harari“Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI,” A book she found “amazing” but “scarier than anything I’ve read.”
When asked her interpretation of AI, Close said, “It depends on how it’s handled.”
“I don’t want my image or my voice reconstructed,” she noted. “I mean, people need jobs. It’s a sad dilemma.”
Nicolas Cage warns Hollywood actors that Ai ‘wants to take your instrument’
Take a closer look, “Is it progress that fewer people are going to work because of it? I don’t know. I think we’re losing the one thing that makes a place like Sundance and what Michelle made so important — stories about what it means to be a human being.
“We have to keep coming back and being inspired by the things that teach us, that help us in our emotions to know what it means to be human and [to always] to look into someone else’s eyes – not a screen – but the eyes of another human being. If we lose that, I’m afraid it will be a very slippery slope. “
The “Hillbilly Elegy” actress discussed how Hollywood will get AI. (Frazer Harrison)
Close isn’t the only star of late questioning the use of artificial intelligence in Hollywood.
“I don’t want my image or my voice reconstructed. I mean, people need jobs. It’s a sad dilemma.”
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Last year, Nicolas Cage They warned actors about the need to control their images amid the rise in popularity of AI.
“There’s a new technology in town. It’s a technology that until recently I didn’t have to fight for 42 years. But these 10 young actors, this generation, certainly will be, and they call it ‘EBDR.'” This technology wants to take its instrument.
EBDR stands for “Employment-Based Digital Replica,” one of two digital replicas allowed following an agreement reached by Actors Union SAG-AFTRA and Studios following last year’s twin strikes.
Nicolas Cage warned actors about the use of artificial intelligence. (Jesse Grant)
According to the rules in the contract, “an EBDR is created in connection with your employment in a motion picture” and may require something like a scan of the actor’s body. Compensation is based on how much the performer would personally work for the scenes in which the digital replica is used, and performers are entitled to residuals from their replica’s appearance in the finished product.
“The studios want it so they can change your face after you’ve already shot it — they can change your face, they can change your voice, they can change your line delivery, they can change your body language, they can change your performance,” Cage warned.
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“I ask you, if a studio approaches you to sign a contract, allowing them to use EBDR on your performance, I want you to think about what I call ‘mvmfmbmi’ – my voice, my face, my body, my body, my imagination – my performance, protect their instrument.”
Robert Downey Jr. admitted that he intends to sue if his likeness is used with AI, doc Ben Affleck He believes that movies will be the last thing that artificial intelligence replaces.
Ben Affleck believes AI will help more filmmakers create projects. (Marilla Sicilia)
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“An AI can write you a great Elizabethan-sounding imitative verse, it can’t write you Shakespeare,” Affleck said at the CNBC-supplied Alpha 2024 Investor Summit. “The function of two actors, or three or four actors in a room and a taste for discernment and construction, that’s something that completely eludes Ai’s ability right now and I think it will for a meaningful period of time.”
He added: “What AI will do is look at the laborious, less creative and more expensive aspects of filmmaking which will allow costs to come down, which will lower the barrier to entry, which will allow more voices to be heard, it will make it easier for people who want to make “Good will of the hunt” go out and do it. “
Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Stanton contributed to this report.
