posting<\/a> \u201cFuck off\u201d on X.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nWhat\u2019s incredible is that Norwood\u2019s acting career thus far only comprises a single AI-generated comedy sketch called AI Commissioner. \u201cI may be AI generated, but I\u2019m feeling very real emotions right now,\u201d Norwood wrote on her Facebook page on the day it was released. \u201cI am so excited for what\u2019s coming next!\u201d<\/p>\n
However, your reaction to the sketch may vary. While on a purely technical level, it\u2019s astonishing to see a number of people who almost look human move around on-screen, it\u2019s also pointless and creepy and \u2013 most damningly of all \u2013 relentlessly unfunny to watch. It\u2019s one thing to watch someone whose perfect teeth keep blurring into a single white block in their mouth, but quite another to see them used to deliver sloppily written, woodenly delivered dialogue. Plus it\u2019s worth pointing out that, in the two months since it was released, AI Commissioner currently only has about 200,000 views. To pick another video that was released at roughly the same time, this makes it 14 times less successful than Macaulay Culkin\u2019s episode of Hot Ones (2.8m views).<\/p>\n
However, the threat is real. For everyone currently working in the entertainment industry who sees Norwood and her ilk as a substandard replacement, there are countless others on the outside who lack the resources (or, some might argue, the creativity) to make a name for themselves. This is where AI actors, and writers, and directors, come in. In other words, even if it means that the market will soon be flooded by absolute slop, the betting is that she\u2019s here to stay.<\/p>\n
Not to mention that, for some in the Hollywood establishment, Norwood represents the platonic ideal of what an actor should be. Imagine a creation that is completely pliant to the wishes of directors and producers. No ego. No creative input. No huge salary or unattractive ageing to deal with. If it had been Norwood who starred in The Wizard of Oz instead of Judy Garland, then Louis B Mayer wouldn\u2019t have needed to put her on a diet of chicken soup, black coffee, weight loss pills and cigarettes. Isn\u2019t that the dream?<\/p>\n
One crumb of consolation is that the people who get to choose whether AI is adopted as a film-making norm are the viewers. As with everything in Hollywood, what will determine Norwood\u2019s career above all else is her financial viability. If, as a species, we decide that we want to pay money to be unsettled by a pretty girl who can\u2019t decide how many teeth she\u2019s supposed to have at any given moment in time, then AI will be with us for generations to come. But we said that 3D was the future of cinema when Avatar first came out a decade and a half ago. It took three bad films to kill that fad dead, so it isn\u2019t impossible to imagine the same happening here.<\/p>\n
Still, the good news is that we know who the next Scarlett Johansson is. And if Hollywood is willing to bank on this being the case, then I\u2019d like to alert it to the existence of Mr Bonkybum, who is a smiley face that I\u2019ve just drawn on a sock. He\u2019s the next Tom Hanks, and he\u2019s looking for a big money deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It takes a lot to be the most controversial figure in Hollywood, especially when Mel Gibson still exists.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-179838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}