AI Actress Has Human Actresses Protesting
The Al Pacino movie S1Mone put the idea out in 2002.
The technology didn’t seem ready yet in 2002, but I saw this as inevitable over a decade ago.
Why would studios choose to deal with real human actors and actresses that can demand $20Million (or more) per film, who age, who have political opinions, who refuse to say certain lines and film certain scenes - when they can OWN an “actress” who does whatever they want, whenever they want, who has no unpopular opinions, no addictions, never ages, and never expects a paycheck?
For now, “AI design is not particularly impressive (at least not yet). Characters are graphically realistic but the Uncanny Valley effect is ever present; the human mind processes them as off-putting in most cases…” But “Hollywood is scared - They have been getting away with mediocrity for so long they have forgotten how to make a good movie. They are so bad at their job that they could actually be swapped for software.“
I’m sure readers can think of a franchise or two that WAS wildly successful then was decimated by woke executives alienating their core audiences with leftist nonsense. Good directors, producers, writers, and actresses aren’t in trouble - yet - in 2025.
Of course there are many relatively talentless people in Hollywood who have been making money on low grade work, and for them, the future may look bleak - because AI will be eliminating millions of jobs whenever it can perform better. “The growing opposition in Hollywood to AI generated ‘actors’ is in many ways similar to the growing feminist fury over AI girlfriends: If you’re a good actor (or a good woman), then you should have no fear of being replaced. If you can’t compete with a robot or software for the affections of the masses, then perhaps you deserve to lose your exalted position in society.”
Likewise, if your job requires skills AI will be very good at - you better have a plan B and C for your future employment. The best lawyers have precedents and laws memorized. AI can memorize. Doctors have trouble keeping up with new opinions, medications, procedures, techniques… AI will upload such updates multiple times a day. Actors and actresses are at greater risk of being replaced first because the savings in entertainment are the biggest. But accountants and bankers and factory workers and many other professions are in trouble next.
And we all need to keep in mind that the elite has viewed the masses as “useless eaters” wasting their planet’s resources for decades. So especially after numerous careers are eliminated… Don’t be surprised when the great population reduction is put into play to remedy their problem.