California passes law against using AI to replace actors

[Wendell_Wagner]

As I said here:

Talk me off the ledge: Will AI destroy my industry?

Have you ever seen the following movie?: The Congress (2013, Israel/Germany/Poland/Luxembourg/Belgium/France/U.S., dir. Ari Folman) It’s about a future in which (among other things) an actor can sell everything about their looks, voice, personality, acting ability, etc. to a movie production company. They then don’t have to do anything related to making movies anymore. In this movie, a fictionalized version of the actress Robin Wright has decided that she’s tired of making movies so she sel…