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Actors are only pigeonholed because of the whims of the industry. They are usually unimaginable wells of deep creativity and anyone who disagrees is incredibly ignorant of what's possible. AI as currently implemented, literally, and by definition, just produces average mediocre junk that is easily branded and controlled. This is fundamentally incompatible with any progress or meaningful novelty. Buyer beware.

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If you took a raw script and fed it to an AI, sure, you will get rubbish and I don't see that changing any time soon. However, if someone carefully choreographed the performance like a puppeteer... I think someone will still be needed to add that spark of life to performances, but I don't see that being an 'actor', chosen as much for their physical attributes and stage presence as their ability to breath life into a script. Script writers, directors, cinematographers, choreographers, and yes, perhaps even actors, keep tweaking the AI performance with details until they get it right. You already see this with animations, except with existing technology they still need voice actors and often find motion capture less cumbersome than manually animating characters.

This I mostly agree with. AI will only assist in refining the quality of existing ideas.

For now yes, but I think the important point is that in the near future, machine learning will likely make the actors replaceable even if machine learning cannot itself replace the actors. You don't see animators or any of the countless people other people working in the entertainment industry manage to gain nearly as much fame as actors, mostly because replacing them is a lot less noticeable to the average consumer. That is what actors are facing.

This may be true today, but the rate of progress on these tools is hitting a curve. Text and image generation are already basically indiscernible from human creations, and the entire space is now turning its attention to audio in tandem.

No you don't understand my comment. The AI only knows, and therefore can average from, what the actor has published. It cannot produce what the actor has not.

That won't be true pretty soon.

It's currently not true for image generation.

Ugh I'm not going to keep fighting off the goon squad of people desperate to invest in something, anything, that will hedge against the recession. We desperately need a hero for art.

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