MCKENZIE: If there was no floor, then understandably, it would be a race to the bottom. The Screen Actors Guild is pushing for actors to get paid fairly for this kind of AI use. It would save the studios a lot of money. MCKENZIE: I think the real concern that I hear amongst my fellow actors is how the technology could be used to gain leverage over creatives and to, you know, potentially replace us.ĪLLYN: McKenzie says he's worried Hollywood studios will try to cut costs with AI technology, like duplicating all of an actor's abilities in a future production. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) You're not part of their family?ĪLLYN: Jump ahead two decades - McKenzie and his actor friends are talking a lot about AI. MCKENZIE: (As Ryan Atwood) It's for them to figure out. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) You should go if you want to go. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) So you're going to go to Portland?īEN MCKENZIE: (As Ryan Atwood) No, I can't. McKenzie starred in the hit mid-2000's show "The O.C." McKenzie played Ryan Atwood, a moody teen from the wrong side of the tracks. Actor Ben McKenzie has been following along. These are not fantastical sci-fi scenarios. AI can make it look like an actor is speaking in a language they don't speak. A real actor's face can be inserted on a stunt double seamlessly. NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn takes a look at why actors are on the defensive in the face of the latest AI innovations.īOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE: AI deepfakes can place a digital version of an actor in a movie. One issue in those talks has been front and center - artificial intelligence. We should note that NPR journalists are represented by the same union, SAG-AFTRA, that's in those negotiations. Hollywood actors and major studios and streamers have extended their deadline over a new contract.
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