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Nic Cage Explains Why He Is Adamantly Against A.I. Being Used in Acting · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. There has been a
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Speaker 1: lot of concern in Hollywood over AI and the fear
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Speaker 1: that actors could be replaced by replicants, but the Acting
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Speaker 1: Union SAG actually permitted one form of AI called eb DR,
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Speaker 1: or Employment based Digital Replica, which allows studios to use
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Speaker 1: AI to tweak the performance or dialogue of an actor
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Speaker 1: they hired onto a project. And performers are split on
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Speaker 1: how they feel about the tech, but Nicholas Cage just
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Speaker 1: revealed he's adamantly opposed to it in a speech at
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Speaker 1: the Newport Beach Festival, saying film performance is very much
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Speaker 1: a handmade, organic, from scratch process. It's from the heart,
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Speaker 1: the imagination. It's thinking, honing and preparing. This technology wants
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Speaker 1: to take your instrument. We are the instruments as film actors.
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Speaker 1: We're not hiding behind guitars and drums. Instead of permitting
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Speaker 1: use of EBDR on your performance, consider what I call
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Speaker 1: mvmf MBM I my voice, my face, my body, my imagination,
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Speaker 1: protect your instrument or its a Nick Cage. His movie
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Speaker 1: Long Legs, featuring his AI free performance is streaming on
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