“I dont want you to do anything with it!”
Nicolas Cageis joining the chorus of actors who are nervous about the rise of artificial intelligence in Hollywood.
TheLonglegsactor voiced his reservations about AI to theNew Yorker, during a conversation withThe Orchid Thiefauthor Susan Orlean.
Nicolas Cage.Neilson Barnard/Getty
Once the idea was spoken aloud, Cage seemed less amused.
God, I hope not AI.
Im terrified of that, he said.
Ive been very vocal about it.
Is it going to be replaced?
Is it going to be transmogrified?
Wheres the heartbeat going to be?
I mean, what are you going to do with my body and my face when Im dead?
I dont want you to do anything with it!"
Cage is no stranger to witnessing how technology can alter a performance.
“When I went to the picture, it was me fighting a giant spider.
I did not do that,” Cage toldYahoo Entertainment.
“That was not what I did.”
So that’s what I did.
I was on set for maybe three hours."
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In recent years,AI has been acontroversialtopicamongst those in Hollywood.
Several of Hollywoods biggest stars have been outspoken over their fear of AI being utilized by studios.
Last year, CagesCon AircostarJohn Cusackcalled AI a criminal enterprise whileslamming its use as studio greed.
“And do you think they will stop with extras?
That’s what AI is - a giant copywrite identity theft - criminal Enterprise.
‘We had no idea this would happen!’
they will say in 10 years when the scope and scale of the plunder is revealed.
Of course they did - it’s the business model.
