Robert Downey Jr has stated he’ll instruct his attorneys to sue future executives who try and create digital replicas of him utilizing AI.
Talking on the On With Kara Swisher podcast, he stated: “I wish to right here state that I intend to sue all future executives simply on spec.”
Swisher recommended he’d be lifeless by then, to which Downey Jr replied: “However my legislation agency will nonetheless be very lively.”
In 2019, Downey Jr introduced he had invested in FootPrint Coalition, an organisation that goals to make use of robotics and AI to attempt to scale back the carbon footprint of people.
He’s additionally on the board of an organisation that makes use of AI to attempt to tighten cybersecurity. Talking on the podcast, he sought to attract a line between his investments and the usage of AI in Hollywood: “It at all times comes all the way down to not the expertise or the chance to line my pockets as a lot as, ‘Who’re the folks concerned with this?’”
The actor, who received an Oscar earlier this yr for his function in Oppenheimer, in regards to the invention of the atomic bomb, stated that the world of AI and deepfakes was not one he ordinarily thought of, “as a result of I’ve an precise emotional life that’s occurring that doesn’t have plenty of room for that.”
He continued by saying that such was his religion in these behind the Marvel motion pictures that he doubted the corporate would ever search to recreate him on display screen with out his permission.
“To return to the MCU,” he stated, “I’m not anxious about them hijacking my character’s soul as a result of there’s like three or 4 guys and gals who make all the selections there anyway and they’d by no means try this to me, with or with out me.”
In July, Downey Jr introduced he could be returning to the MCU after his long-running stint as Tony Stark, this time taking part in Physician Doom, considered one of Marvel’s largest villains, within the forthcoming Avengers: Doomsday. The actor’s wage for 2 movies is reportedly about $100m.
Earlier this month Downey Jr made his Broadway debut in Ayad Akhtar’s play McNeal.
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