If I had known he was so good, I would have done it myself."
you’ve got the option to already do it for nickels and dimes with good ideas and talent.
[Baker] did a brilliant job, and it didn’t take AI to do it."
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Ford is absolutely correct.
Baker is terrific in The Great Circle and is doing exactly what the role calls for.
What Ford is saying gets to a larger point beyond the specifics of Baker’s performance, though.
AIisbeing used to replicate actors' performances.
But this kind of thing was happening before generative AI was ready for commercial use.
It isn’t just Disney franchise movies, either.
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman de-aged Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino.
The de-aged Hamill in The Mandalorian is a particularly egregious example.
The performance strays deep into the uncanny valley.
De-aging and AI both treat a performance as atechnical problem, not an artistic challenge.
As both technologies improve, filmmakers will be able to coax increasingly believable reproductions from machines.
But we don’t engage with art purely for verisimilitude.
Hearing a voice you recognize emerge from an unlikely face feels like a magic trick.
Sure, a computer will eventually be able to do it, and already kinda can.
But where’s the fun in that?
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