# California passes law against using AI to replace actors **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies, ai\ **Created:** [October 13, 2025, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/california-passes-law-against-using-ai-to-replace-actors/1023924 "2025-10-13T11:58:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/california-passes-law-against-using-ai-to-replace-actors/1023924/9 "2025-10-13T21:41:23Z")
As I said here: > [@Talk me off the ledge: Will AI destroy my industry?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-off-the-ledge-will-ai-destroy-my-industry/981879/172): > > 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/california-passes-law-against-using-ai-to-replace-actors/1023924)._