AN ACTRESS is concerned that her career in the movie industry will plummet due to artificial intelligence.
The concern comes as AI could possibly replace the need for human actors considering it can just duplicate them.
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Filmmaker and actress Justine Bateman shared her worry about AI replacing actors and ruining Hollywood with Variety.
AI replacing actors would be done through deep fake technology which takes a video of a person and uses it to create more content of the person.
“AI can create a convincing simulation of a human actor, and the tech is improving at an alarming rate,” says Bateman, the former “Family Ties” star who has a degree in computer science and digital media management from UCLA told Variety.
Bateman suggests that people will start to question the need to pay actors and has called AI a “threat.”
“I stress that this is an existential threat,” continues Bateman
AI has been compared to a tidal wave that is coming for us one way or the other due to its ability to accomplish so many things that use to only be able to be done by humans.
But it’s hard to pinpoint exactly how that will happen because there are so many unknowns and it is relatively new.
Monica Landers, founder, and CEO of StoryFit, an Austin-based company that uses AI to analyze screenplays shed a glimpse of hope for the film industry.
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She insisted that AI is not able to add as much depth as humans.
“It’s fun to imagine a generative AI scriptwriter, but there is absolutely no interest in that. Because it’s lousy,” Landers told Variety.
“It can’t hold on to the pacing to reveal the plot. It’s not made for character growth. It’s so empty right now.”
It is commonly known that AI needs to be handled with a grain of salt.
In June, The Center for AI Safety (CIAS) released a paper about the importance of handling AI properly.
The paper highlighted that “as with all powerful technologies, AI must be handled with great responsibility to manage the risks and harness its potential for the betterment of society.”
