Keanu Reeves Calls Out “Scary” Deepfakes & AI Technology
deadline.comKeanu Reeves is opening up about what he thinks of DeepFake and AI technologies. The Matrix star is opposed to tech that he even added a clause in his contract so editors don’t manipulate his performance. “I don’t mind if someone takes a blink out during an edit.
But early on, in the early 2000s, or it might have been the ’90s, I had a performance changed,” Reeves told Wired. “They added a tear to my face, and I was just like, ‘Huh?!’ It was like, ‘I don’t even have to be here.'” Reeves continued, “What’s frustrating about that is you lose your agency.
When you give a performance in a film, you know you’re going to be edited, but you’re participating in that. If you go into deepfake land, it has none of your points of view.
That’s scary. It’s going to be interesting to see how humans deal with these technologies. They’re having such cultural, sociological impacts, and the species is being studied.
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