As I dive into post on Lisa Frankenstein, I just wanna say how grateful I am to have worked with every single person in this photo. To have crossed the (production) finish line on my first film with all of you will remain one of the most joyful adventures of my life ❤️ thank you

Ive said it before, I’ll say it again: actors, start adding clauses to your contracts that fight dialogue you did not sign off on being put in your mouth. They’ll make it seem innocuous, even helpful in vids like this, but it can be used maliciously. You’re more than avatars.

Happy birthday to Poppo, who definitely would’ve been out there fighting the good fight for art and artists today and always.

The fact the below example uses a real woman who cannot consent to what is being put in her mouth or done with/to her body should clue you in on the dark future ahead. Absolutely obscene to believe you should get to control Marilyn like an avatar. She remains a human, even gone.

The dehumanizing element of these various tech ‘advancements’ cannot be overstated. The second you are creating fake people or worse, puppeteering real ones with technology, you remove consent from the equation in a way that is absolutely harmful to all forms of performance.

I don’t care how much you believe you ‘revere’ or love an actor- if you use tech to put words in their mouths or move them at your whim, things they never said or did, you were never actually a fan. You wanted to own them. They never ‘belonged’ to you. Grotesque.

I stand by that no estate should have the power to give permission for this either. With the exception of living wills, the deceased who this would be used on could never have conceived of its uses or limits. Why would the living know their beliefs on a tech they never saw?

If an actor doesn’t want to do a role, they turn it down. Who are any of us to make them perform whatever we want? Especially as themselves. If you cannot see the difference between an actor playing the role of Marilyn and using the woman herself as an avatar, I cannot help you.

I disagree. I also think you misunderstand what an editor does, unless you’re implying they could chop up existing performances to deliver infinite outcomes. They would not have been able to convincingly place any actor in a porn or force them to perform any dialogue w/o AI.

CGI recreation (w/ permission) is not the battle I’m waging, in the same way I have no issue with the artists who create prosthetics. Random people puppeteering a celebrity to fulfill their weird wishes is different than in universe performance continuity.