Zelda Williams – actress, director and daughter of the late actor Robin Williams – spoke on Instagram about what she called the “disgusting” reconstruction of her father's AI.
“Please just stop sending me a video with dad created by artificial intelligence. Stop believing that I want to see it or that I understand, I do not want and will not, ”she wrote in history on Instagram, the validity of which has already expired. She said that she would simply prohibit those who are trying to upset her before turning to others.
“Please, if you have at least a little conscience, just stop doing this to him and with me – even with everyone, a point. This is stupid, this is a waste of time and energy, and believe me, this is not what he would like. ”
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“Watch how the legacy of real people boils down to this“ vaguely similar to them, so that’s enough ”just so that other people can stamp the terrible Tiktok slopes, puppeting them, driving out,” wrote Zelda Williams in her post.
“You are not engaged in art. You make disgusting, recycled hot dogs from the life of people-from the history of art and music-and then put them in a throat to someone else, hoping that they will show you a small finger up and you will like it. Disgusting. “
Williams’s statements about the father this week echoing with the statements that she made back in 2023, when the American acting union Sag-Aftra publicly stated that AI is an “obligatory subject of negotiations” upon stopping the strike.
Zelda said that then she saw many reconstruction of her father, created by artificial intelligence. Callingm “personally worries” and artistic violation, which came out “far beyond [her] own feelings. ”
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Models of artificial intelligence
The idea of a digital reconstruction of real people was the subject of discussions for many years, having penetrated into a wider pop culture in the notorious Dipfate video of the former US President Barack Obama in 2018And then a promise The risen in digital format James Dean will shoot in the film in 2019. But after the boom of generative artificial intelligence began in 2022 with the release of ChatGPT, it quickly became Existential problem for Numerous art sectors.
The world of art is faced with the problem The text using artificial intelligence received a literary prizeIntroduction And an apparent bust NFT and the creation of songs created by AI – or Reconstruction of the votes of recognized artists or using Fully synthetic performers.
In Hollywood, the question of whether artificial intelligence tools will influence the cinema landscape, and if so, in what volume, almost all aspects of the industry affected. IN Pre -available draft versions In the contracts signed by Sag-Aftra, in order to stop the strike, the trade union and the film studio agreed to “recognize the importance of human activity in the cinema” and act “conscientiously” in relation to each other in negotiations.
This is a slightly blurry and complicated agreement since then led to disagreements: including the introduction of the “synthetic performer” Tilly Norwood, “actresses” with artificial intelligence created by the production company in artificial intelligence Particle6.
Although the AI model appeared only in one short video called “Artificial intelligence commissar“This caused an almost immediate negative reaction. In response, Sag-Aftra stated in her statement that “she believes that creativity is and should remain oriented towards a person.” The trade union opens against the replacement of people-performers with synthetics. ”
Similarly, the current union of the United Kingdom of Equity declared “This tool consists of the work of the performers, and we are concerned about where this work came from and whether it was given consent to its use in this way.”
The Actra Canadian Union said that Norwood “Nothing but lines of code“, which was erroneously built on the basis of the real work of the actors.
The European Particle6 company company states that their creation Tilly Norwood aroused great interest, but Hollywood actors, including Emily Blunt, Melissa Barrera and Wupu Goldberg, as well as the Sag-Aftra trade union opposed the character of AI.
While the debate between trade unions and studios unfold on one front, the comments of Zelda Williams reflect the other: the use of AI with ordinary people through publicly accessible programs of generative AI. The number of such videos has increased significantly since the Chatgpt Openai creator has released its artificial intelligence model to convert the text into the video. Sora 2, last week.
This generative system of artificial intelligence promised users more realistic and more controlled results than the first version of the program, but almost immediately caused the anger of copyright holders.
Sora 2 was launched simultaneously with the Sora application, a kind of platform of social networks created from videos created by artificial intelligence and currently accessible only by invitation to the USA and Canada. Within 24 hours from the date of start Technical Journalists Washington Post He found that he is full of fake videos and is able to create those that show “real people dressed as Nazi generals, very convincing fake scenes from television shows, including South Park And fake frames of historical personalities, such as John F. Kennedy. ”
One fake video captures the general director of Openai Sam Altman. Grill on grille and eat a fictional character of Pokemons Pikachu. According to CNBCThe other depicts altman in a field with Pokemon, saying: “I hope Nintendo will not sue us.”
Openai Since then he said They will provide copyright holders with “more detailed control” over what symbols can be used in the appendix. Nintendo, who owns intellectual rights to Pokemon, made his own statementHaving stated that “regardless of whether generative artificial intelligence is involved or not, we will continue to take the necessary actions against violation of our intellectual property rights.”
Legal proceedings
Earlier this year, Disney and Universal began a trial against the AI Midjourney image generator for the alleged use of their materials protected by copyright. Disney is also recently sent a letter about the termination of counteraction The Character.ai AI-Bot platform, accusing them of “clearly violate” the copyrights of Disney, using their characters. The character.ai said that in response he deleted these characters.
Other representatives of the industry previously spoke about generative artificial intelligence. In a recent performance on the podcast Konan O'Brien needs a friend, Director Werner Herzog called short films with artificial intelligence “Absolutely dead. These are stories, but there is no soul in them. They are empty and soulless. ”
And Hayao Miyazaki, the head of the Studio Ghibli animation company, sharply spoke in the address of the 2016 documentary.
When showing animation created by artificial intelligence, He said: “The one who creates this thing has no idea what pain is. I am extremely disgusting … I firmly feel that this is an insult to life itself. “
