AI's Threat to Australian Screen Industry: A Guide for Actors, Directors, and Crew
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Dov Kornits
Summary
A urgent call-to-action for Australian screen industry professionals about the existential threat posed by AI. The article explains how actors' voices, faces, and physical performances are already being used to train AI systems without consent, with studios licensing thousands of films to AI companies. It provides legal advice from counsel to help industry workers understand and protect themselves, while raising the moral question of whether AI will eventually replace human talent in the screen industry.
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bskyAI's Threat to Australian Screen Industry: A Guide for Actors, Directors, and Crewfilmink.com.auKey quotes
· 4 pulledVoices are likely cloned. Faces used for training and datasets to be replicated.
Physical performances have already been used to train an AI system – that's not in question.
We know that studios have licensed thousands of films to AI companies for just this purpose.
The real question is whether they will eventually replace you. That's the moral question our industry faces.
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