While Tom Hanks himself is warning people not to think he's stooped to the level of making insurance commercials, the late, great Robin Williams's daughter has expressed her "very real" concerns about AI-generated recreations of her father's likeness.
Yesterday (October 1), Zelda Williams shared a since-disappeared Instagram Story criticizing the use of her dad's voice and image in AI content.
"I've already heard AI used to get his 'voice' to say whatever people want and while I find it personally disturbing, the ramifications go far beyond my own feelings," she wrote [via Rolling Stone]. "Living actors deserve a chance to create characters with their choices, to voice cartoons, to put their HUMAN effort and time into the pursuit of performance."
Williams continued, "These recreations are, at their very best, a poor facsimile of greater people, but at their worst, a horrendous Frankensteinian monster, cobbled together from the worst bits of everything this industry is, instead of what it should stand for."
Months before going on strike, SAG-AFTRA released a statement regarding "the terms and conditions involving rights to digitally simulate a performer to create new performances" with the use of AI and digital doubles in entertainment and media. AI recreations are a "mandatory subject of bargaining" in their ongoing crusade for fair working conditions in the streaming era.
"I am not an impartial voice in SAG's fight against AI," Williams added on Instagram. "I've witnessed for YEARS how many people want to train these models to create/recreate actors who cannot consent, like Dad. This isn't theoretical, it is very very real."
Yesterday (October 1), Zelda Williams shared a since-disappeared Instagram Story criticizing the use of her dad's voice and image in AI content.
"I've already heard AI used to get his 'voice' to say whatever people want and while I find it personally disturbing, the ramifications go far beyond my own feelings," she wrote [via Rolling Stone]. "Living actors deserve a chance to create characters with their choices, to voice cartoons, to put their HUMAN effort and time into the pursuit of performance."
Williams continued, "These recreations are, at their very best, a poor facsimile of greater people, but at their worst, a horrendous Frankensteinian monster, cobbled together from the worst bits of everything this industry is, instead of what it should stand for."
Months before going on strike, SAG-AFTRA released a statement regarding "the terms and conditions involving rights to digitally simulate a performer to create new performances" with the use of AI and digital doubles in entertainment and media. AI recreations are a "mandatory subject of bargaining" in their ongoing crusade for fair working conditions in the streaming era.
"I am not an impartial voice in SAG's fight against AI," Williams added on Instagram. "I've witnessed for YEARS how many people want to train these models to create/recreate actors who cannot consent, like Dad. This isn't theoretical, it is very very real."
