Gabriel Byrne says ‘The Irishman’ de-aging “didn’t quite work” but AI tech “will get better”
nme.comThe Usual Suspects and Miller’s Crossing, has given his views on ‘de-aging’ technology and the “terrifying” advent of artificial intelligence in the entertainment industry.“I think the de-aging process is at a very exploratory stage,” he told NME in an exclusive interview, before commenting on Martin Scorsese’s 2019 Netflix mob epic The Irishman, which aged down Robert De Niro and Al Pacino up to 50 years by using first-of-its-kind motion capture technology created from AI software. “I didn’t think it quite worked in The Irishman,” Byrne said, “but it will get better and it will get incredibly sophisticated.”He continued: “The advent of AI is going to affect every single facet of life from now on, it’s especially going to affect the truth.
And what we have come to think of as the truth. People say we won’t know what’s real and what’s not real, but to a great extent that’s already happened, we’re already living in a post truth society.
I think it will have huge implications for the film business.”The way big film and TV studios in Hollywood use AI has been a key part of disagreements between executives and writers and actors recently – and proved a key stumbling block during union strikes this year.
A deal struck between the Alliance Of Motion Picture And Television Producers (AMPTP) and the Writer’s Guild Of America (WGA) last month provided safeguards for writers against the use of AI, but AMPTP and the actors unions are still at loggerheads over the issue.
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