Hollywood's striking actors fear that artificial intelligence is coming for their jobs - but for many stunt performers, that dystopian danger is already a reality.
Hollywood comes to a standstill as actors' union announces strike
Bouciegues fears producers could use these virtual avatars to replace"nondescript" stunt performers - such as those playing pedestrians leaping out of the way of a car chase. But Blomkamp predicts that, in as soon as six or 12 months, AI will reach a point where it can generate photo-realistic footage like high-speed crashes based on a director's instructions alone.
The studios dispute this, and say they have offered rules including informed consent and compensation. For stunt workers like Bouciegues, the best outcome now is to blend the use of human performers with VFX and AI to pull off sequences that would be too dangerous with old-fashioned techniques alone.
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