George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Please don't do this to me decades from now. https://www.comicsands.com/robin-williams-zelda-ai-actors-2665788076.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram
Lotus Blossom@georgetakei Using an actor’s voice or likeness without their consent is an issue all of us should be concerned about, because if you think your company won’t try to feed your work into the AI machine to displace you, you’re ignoring hundreds of years of corporate history.
UncannyKyle@georgetakei yeah it was weird when Christopher Reeves “appeared” in The Flash. Like, would he have signed off? Who was that even for?
Kevin C 🎬@georgetakei
The story says the Williams estate gave consent, and it's not even AI generated dialog, but unused dialog recorded by Robin for Aladin.
The story says the Williams estate gave consent, and it's not even AI generated dialog, but unused dialog recorded by Robin for Aladin.
BeeCycling has moved@georgetakei It's one thing to use it to complete a movie if the actor died while filming, like Oliver Reed in Gladiator or Paul Walker in Furious 7, but they had signed contracts to be in those movies. Using the likeness of someone after their death when they never signed on to that movie is creepy and wrong.
Even in the former case, if it's early in filming, they should be recast.
Rote Blume@georgetakei would you allow it to fix an old film of yours? Just limited to this?
Three Gs@georgetakei [beep beep boop] “Oh my”
Modus Ponens@georgetakei I won't. I promise.
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Elon Muksis 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇪🇺@georgetakei They will make a hologram rapper of you.
RainTech@georgetakei Zelda Williams is a wonderful human being! Can totally understand her outrage!
Graynight@georgetakei This will have to be worked out. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter comes to mind right off the top. Do we own anything after we are gone? I suspect not.
Harry MyhreI think the problem is, it will be a global problem.
Not just a problem that is happening in Daly City, California.
Soozcat@georgetakei Didn't the language in his will specifically forbid this? There's probably grounds for a lawsuit.
Coyoty@georgetakei You don't want an android resurrecting you as a hologram to learn more about being human?
@georgetakei The genie is out of the bottle.
Jumping Mouse@georgetakei I'd like to see a court case brought against a studio for electronic grave robbing… it ought to be a crime.
Glenn@georgetakei Wait... You are the *real *Star Trek George Takei?
Dave FIf you don't want us to, I guess you'll just have to live forever!
Richard Billingsley@georgetakei we don’t need AI to recreate performance. There plenty of young talented actors who may be employed instead