Morgan Freeman has expressed dissatisfaction over his voice being reproduced by AI programs without his permission.
Morgan Freeman has expressed dissatisfaction over his voice being reproduced by AI programs without his permission. In a recent interview with The Guardian, the 88-year-old actor even suggested that he is taking legal action to stop it.
“I’m a little irritated, you know?” he said. “I’m like any other actor: don’t fake-imitate me. I don’t like it, and I get paid to do that kind of thing, so if you’re going to do it without me, you’re stealing from me.”
“Well, I can tell you that my lawyers have been very, very busy,” he revealed.
Freeman also criticized the creation of AI actors, such as in the case of Tilly Norwood — a character conceived by a British studio — which sparked controversy in Hollywood after reports that talent agencies had considered signing the digitally-generated actress as a client.
For the actor, Norwood is merely an invention that will not replace real artists: “No one likes her because she isn’t real, and that takes the shine away from a real person, so it’s not going to work very well in film or television.”
“The union’s job is to keep actors acting, so there will be that conflict,” Freeman concluded.
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