American actor Keanu Reeves he said that he put a clause in his film contracts according to which his character cannot be digitally manipulated afterwards, without his consent.
"I don't mind if someone takes out the blink during editing. But before, in the early XNUMXs or maybe the XNUMXs, one time my appearance was altered. They added a tear to my face, and I was like, 'Huh!?' It's like I wasn't even supposed to be there," Reeves said in an interview with Wired magazine.
Asked what he thinks about "dipfake" manipulations, Reeves said that this phenomenon is frustrating and frightening, and that it will be interesting to see how people will deal with new technologies, whose cultural and social impact is already visible.
Noting that "technologies are finding a place in our education, medicine, politics, how we war and how we work," Reeves added that people are already growing up with tools like artificial intelligence.
"We're already listening to Nirvana-style AI-created music, there's NFT digital art. It's cool, like, look what these cute machines can do! But behind it all there's a corporatocracy trying to control these things. Culturally, socially, we're going to be faced with the value real or worthless," Reeves stated.
Asked if he should worry about artificial intelligence taking away people's jobs, Reeves noted that those who pay for art would prefer not to and "actively look for a way around you, because artists are screwed."
Speaking about the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT, which can write a finished script at the user's request by combining earlier ideas, Reeves noted that "artists do that too."
"We're taking our influences and putting them together. But what's the intention behind that amalgamation," Reeves asked.
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