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Glenn Close acknowledged the ever-changing landscape of the entertainment industry during a stop in Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival.
Academy nominee The actress has been trying to keep her “balance” lately, ahead of celebrating Sundance Institute icon Michelle Satter at a gala fundraiser.
“I’m very lucky to have a job,” Close said The Hollywood Reporter. “There were so many people affected in LA already, and then now with the fires. I was amazed at how little work there is in our profession. I’m a big reader of history, and unfortunately, I think not enough people in this Country understands history and what we have just entered ourselves into.
“On top of that is (Artificial Intelligence). What will be the truth? What is true will be a big question.”
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Glenn Close wonders how artificial intelligence will affect Hollywood. (Lexie Moreland)
Closer told the outlet that she had recently finished reading Yuval Noah Harari’s novel“Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI,” a book she found “incredible” but “more horrifying than anything I’ve read.”
When asked her take on AI, Close said, “It depends on how it’s handled.”
“I don’t want my image or my voice to be reconstructed,” she noted. “I mean, people need jobs. It’s a sad dilemma.”
Nicolas Cage warns Hollywood actors he ‘wants to take your instrument’
Close pondered, “Is it progress that fewer people are going to work because of it? I don’t know. I think we’re missing something that a place like Sundance and what Michelle has done is so important — stories about what it means to be a human being.
“We have to keep going back and being inspired by the things that teach us, that help us with our emotions to know what it means to be human and (always) to look into someone else’s eyes – not a screen – but another human being Eyes. If we lose it, it will be a very slippery slope, I’m afraid.”
The “Hillbilly Elegy” actress debated how Hollywood would take AI. (Frazer Harrison)
Close isn’t the only star of late to question the use of artificial intelligence in Hollywood.
“I don’t want my image or my voice to be reconstructed. I mean, people need jobs. It’s a sad dilemma.”
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last year, Nicolas cage 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 I haven’t had to fight for for 42 years until recently. But these 10 young actors, this generation, sure will be, and they’re calling it ‘EBDR ‘.This technology wants to take your instrument.
EBDR stands for “employment-based digital copy,” one of two digital copies allowed after the agreement reached by the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA and the studios following last year’s twin strikes.
Nicolas Cage warned actors against using artificial intelligence. (Jesse Grant)
According to the rules in the contract, an “EBDR is made in connection with your employment in a moving image” and may require something like scanning an actor’s body. Compensation is based on how much a performer would have personally worked on for the scenes in which the digital copy is used, and performers are entitled to residuals from the appearance of their copy in the finished product.
“The studios want it so they can change the face after you’ve already shot it – they can change your face, they can change your voice, they can change your line deliveries, they can change your body language yours, they can change your performance,” Cage warned.
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“I’m asking you, if you’re approached by a studio to sign a contract allowing them to use EBDR in your performance, I want you to consider what I’m calling ‘MVMFMBMI’ – my voice, my face , my body , My imagination – my performance, in response.
Robert Downey Jr. admitted that he intends to sue if his likeness is used with AI, while Ben Affleck It believes that movies will be the last thing that artificial intelligence replaces.
Ben Affleck believes AI will help more filmmakers create projects. (Marilla Sicily)
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“HE can write you a great Elizabethan-sounding mimetic verse, I can’t write you Shakespeare,” Affleck said at CNBC’s 2024 Alpha Investor Summit. “The function of having two actors, or three or four actors in a room and the flavor to distinguish and build, that’s something that currently completely stretches the capability of AI and I think it will for a significant period of time.”
He added, “What AI will do is measure the laborious, less creative and more expensive aspects of filmmaking that will allow costs to come down, that will lower the barrier to entry, that will allow more voices to be heard, this will make it easier for people who want to do ‘Good will will hunt’ to go out and do it.”
Elizabeth Stanton of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
