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Hollywood stars sign AI pact that could let them license themselves forever

From Magyar Nemzet · () Hungarian

Translated from Hungarian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • New agreements reportedly allow Hollywood stars and leading voice actors to license their voices and digital likenesses to AI studios.
  • Studios could use those licensed identities in films, advertisements and video games without the performers entering a studio.
  • The article presents the deal as a major change for cinema while questioning its cost for the acting profession.

Hollywood stars and leading voice actors have signed what the article calls one of the strangest agreements in film history: they have officially licensed their voices and digital clones to studios working with artificial intelligence.

Under the new arrangements, celebrities can receive astronomical sums in exchange for allowing AI to create new films, advertisements or video games featuring them, even when they never set foot inside a studio.

The deal could change the world of cinema in a literal sense. Actors may become digitally reusable, appearing in new productions through licensed versions of their voices and identities. But the article frames that promise of lasting screen life against a more troubling question: what price will the acting profession pay?

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Originally published by Magyar Nemzet in Hungarian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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