Robin Williams’ daughter, Zelda, is taking a strong stand against artificial intelligence in Hollywood.
The actress and director, 34, shared a post on her Instagram Stories on Sunday criticizing non-consensual AI replications of her late father — a key issue central to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike — and urging people to protect the actor’s likenesses.
“I’m not an unbiased voice in SAG’s fight against artificial intelligence,” Zelda began, according to screenshots obtained Entertainment Weekly.
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She went on to say that she has “witnessed FOR YEARS how many people want to train these models to create/recreate actors who can’t consent, like the father.”
Robin, influential actor-comedian and Oscar winner for Good Will Huntingdied in 2014.
Zelda Williams and Robin Williams in 2009.
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“This is not theoretical, this is very very real,” she continued. “I’ve already heard of AI using its ‘voice’ to say whatever people want and while I find that personally disturbing, the ramifications go far beyond my own feelings.”
She added, “Live actors deserve the opportunity to create characters of their choosing, to voice cartoons, to put their HUMAN effort and time into the pursuit of performance.”
“These recreations are, at best, a poor facsimile of great men, but at worst, a hideous Frankenstein’s monster, made up of the worst parts of everything this industry is, instead of what it should represent,” she concluded. .
The use of artificial intelligence to replicate performers’ voices or likenesses, as well as the use of performers’ voices or likenesses to train artificial intelligence to create new content, are “mandatory bargaining” for SAG-AFTRA, according to an official letter from Jeffrey Bennett, the union’s general counsel.
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On Saturday, Tom Hanks dealt first-hand with the consequences of artificial intelligence, taking to social media to confirm that his version of AI circulating the internet is not actually him.
The actor, 67, shared a post warning his Instagram followers about an ad for a dental plan that used a computer-generated image of him.
“WATCH OUT!! There’s a video out there promoting some dental plan with an AI version of me.” Hanks wrote over a photo of his AI counterpart from the video. “I have nothing to do with it.”
The Elvis The star previously addressed the growing use of artificial intelligence in the creative industries during an episode in May Podcast by Adam Buxtonin which he said that “this has always been going on”.
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“The first time we made a movie that had a huge amount of our own data locked into a computer — literally what we looked like — was a movie called The Polar Express,” he explained.
“We saw this coming,” he continued. “We saw that there was going to be this ability to take zeros and ones inside a computer and turn it into a face and a character. Now it’s grown just a billion times since then, and we’re seeing it everywhere.”
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Earlier this month, Tim Burton also spoke out against “disturbing” artificial intelligence imitations.
In an interview with The Independentthe iconic filmmaker, 65, talked about the ramifications of artificial intelligence in the world of animation, a conversation that was sparked by a Buzzfeed article titled “We Asked Artificial Intelligence to ‘Tim Burton-ize’ Disney Movies.
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“They had an artificial intelligence do my versions of Disney characters!” Burton told the outlet. “I can’t describe the feeling it gives you. It reminded me of when other cultures say, ‘Don’t take a picture of me because it takes away your soul’.”
The Edward Scissorhands The director admitted that some of the recreations were good, but said he didn’t like that his particular style was being imitated.
“What it does is it gets something out of you,” he said. “It takes something from your soul or psyche; it’s very disturbing, especially if it has to do with you. It’s like a robot taking your humanity, your soul.”
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