(CNN) — Tom Hanks says that thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), his image could still appear in movies after he passes away.
“A bona fide possibility right now, if I wanted to, [es que] I could get together and propose a series of seven movies that I would star in that would be 32 years old from now until the end of time,” Hanks said on the latest episode of “The Adam Buxton Podcast,” released Saturday.
“Now anyone can recreate themselves at any age, thanks to AI or deepfake technology (…) I could get hit by a bus tomorrow and that’s it, but my performances can go on and on and on,” he added. Oscar-winning actor.
“Apart from the realization that it’s been artificially created or deepfake, there’s nothing going to tell you that it’s not me and only me and that it’s going to have any degree of realistic quality.”
Buxton then suggested that people would be able to distinguish between the AI version of Hanks and the real one.
Although Hanks acknowledged that an AI-based version of himself wouldn’t be able to pull off the same performances he does now, he wondered if audiences would really care.
“Certainly people will notice, but the question is whether they will care,” he said. “There are people who won’t care, who won’t make that line.”
The task of creating an artificial identity for Hanks would be easier since his likenesses and movements were recorded for use in the 2004 film “The Polar Express,” he said.
“This has always been dormant,” Hanks said. “The first time we made a movie that had a lot of our own data stored on a computer—literally our looks—was in a movie called ‘The Polar Express.'”
“We saw it coming, we saw that there was going to be this ability to take zeros and ones inside a computer and turn them into a face and a character. Since then it has multiplied by a billion and we see it everywhere.”
Tom Hanks en “The Polar Express”, de 2004.
Hanks also said advances in artificial intelligence are encouraging movie agents to write contracts to protect actors’ images as intellectual property.
“I can tell you that there are discussions going on in every trade, every agency and every law firm to find out the legal ramifications of my and everyone else’s face and voice being our intellectual property,” he said.
Hanks promociona actualmente su novela de debut “The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece”.
According to the official synopsis, the book is based on “a wildly ambitious story about the making of a colossal, star-studded, multi-million dollar superhero action movie, and the humble comic book that inspired it all.”
Some of the book’s initial reviews have been mixed, but Hanks takes the criticism in his stride.
In an interview with the BBC, he explained why he accepted the project. “Sometimes you just have to have some other reason to spark your imagination,” she said, adding that his novel “will live and die on its own ability to entertain and enlighten an audience.”
