Tim Burton is not a fan of artificial intelligence being used to mimic his iconic style.
In a recent interview with The Independent, bug juice The director spoke about the potential threat of artificial intelligence to animation after a Buzzfeed article in which characters from Disney films were recreated in his style through the technology.
“They had an AI make Disney character versions of me!” Burton said. “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.’ ”
Burton admitted that some of the recreations were good, but he did not appreciate the imitation of his distinctive style.
“What it does is it gets something out of you,” he added. βIt 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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He wasn’t the only major filmmaker to tackle artificial intelligence, which has been an issue in the ongoing actor and writer strikes against Hollywood studios. In a recent interview with CTV News, Titanic and Avatar director James Cameron said that “the introduction of artificial intelligence into weapons is the greatest danger”.
“I think we’re going to enter the equivalent of a nuclear arms race with artificial intelligence,” he added, “and if we don’t do it, others will certainly do it, and then it will escalate . You could imagine AI in a combat theater, the whole thing is just being fought by computers at a rate where humans can no longer intervene, and you don’t have the ability to de-escalate.”
And in an interview with NBC News’ Chuck Todd, Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan compared the moral dilemma faced by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in creating the atomic bomb to the continued development of AI technology.
“When I talk to leading researchers in the field of artificial intelligence now, for example, they literally call it their Oppenheimer moment,” Nolan said. “They look at his story to say ‘Okay, what are the responsibilities of scientists who develop new technologies that may have unintended consequences?’ ”
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In July, an actors’ strike against Hollywood producers was announced.
Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the union’s national executive and chief negotiator, said at the time: “This ‘revolutionary’ artificial intelligence proposal that they gave us yesterday, they proposed that our background contractors could be scanned, get a day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their image, and should be able to use it in perpetuity on any project they want, without consent or compensation.”
The AMPTP (Association of Film and Television Producers) meanwhile said, according to Reuters: “[Studios] said the current proposal would limit the use of digital replica to a film for which a background actor was hired. Any other use would require that actor’s consent and negotiation for use, with minimal payment.”
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