Not yet, but soon enough! First Disney is trying to replace the most expensive parts of film production, the actors!

“Disney Research has been exploring AI, machine learning and visual computing and has spent the last decade developing “digital humans” that it says are “indistinguishable” from their corporeal counterparts.

One source told Reuters this technology is being used to enhance digital effects and not replace live actors.

However, actors and writers worry that is exactly what AI will do, with the technology taking a key role in the dispute between their unions and studios, with the unions arguing generative AI has the potential to write scripts and create digital likenesses of actors, thus replacing them.”

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Disney Reportedly Studying Companywide AI Use as Creatives Strike

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