In light of the development of artificial intelligence technology, American actors who lend their voices to animation films and video games are concerned about their future, in an issue they discussed during the Comic Con forum held in San Diego, USA.
This year, the famous festival dedicated to pop culture is taking place in the midst of a strike in Hollywood, with screenwriters and actors demanding higher wages and guarantees over the use of artificial intelligence that threatens their professions, reports Al-Rai daily.
National Dubbing Actors Association founder Tim Friedlander points to an actor who received a thank-you letter after working for three years at a company. Friedlander added in a press conference, “They told him: (We have your vote for three years, so we will simply create an exact copy of it with the data we have).”
Tech actors are not the only source of the problem. In recent years, a large number of fans of artificial intelligence have used this technology to reproduce the voices of famous personalities and make them utter phrases that the characters did not even say, and these conversations are often of a pornographic nature.
Artificial intelligence is one of the outstanding issues in the negotiations between the studios in Hollywood and the Actors Guild, which followed the example of the screenwriters and decided to strike on July 14.
The actors accuse the studios of not taking seriously their concerns about “replacing the bulk of their work with digital copies.”
As for the studios, they confirmed that they had offered to define rules related to prior approval and fair compensation, noting that they had not received any response from the union.
And the union’s chief negotiator, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, believes that the studios want to “obliterate” their clauses related to artificial intelligence approval “in a written sentence in the midst of a 12-page contract.”
And he warns that actors working in the field of dubbing are “the most concerned” in the discussion related to artificial intelligence, noting that changes for them “are happening faster than in any other field.”