{"id":138840,"date":"2025-11-14T04:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T04:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138840\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T04:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T04:38:09","slug":"morgan-freeman-says-his-lawyers-are-very-busy-with-ai-imitators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138840\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Freeman Says His Lawyers Are &#8220;Very Busy&#8221; With AI Imitators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs some of his peers <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/michael-caine-elevenlabs-voice-clone-1236613791\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">embrace generative artificial intelligence<\/a> with their own likeness, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/morgan-freeman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Morgan Freeman<\/a> is putting his imitators on notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Oscar winner recently brushed off \u201cthe idea of retirement\u201d as he shared his reaction to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ai\/\">AI<\/a> recreations of his voice and likeness online, revealing that his \u201clawyers have been very, very busy\u201d with \u201cquite a few\u201d cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m a little PO\u2019d, you know,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/ng-interactive\/2025\/nov\/10\/morgan-freeman-interview-nelson-mandela-six-decades-on-screen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Guardian<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m like any other actor: don\u2019t mimic me with falseness. I don\u2019t appreciate it and I get paid for doing stuff like that, so if you\u2019re gonna do it without me, you\u2019re robbing me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlthough his frequent collaborator <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/michael-caine\">Michael Caine<\/a> recently partnered with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/elevenlabs\/\">ElevenLabs<\/a> to \u201cpreserve and share\u201d his voice in their \u2018<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/michael-caine-elevenlabs-voice-clone-1236613791\/\">Iconic Voice Marketplace<\/a>\u2018 along with several other living and dead stars, Freeman plans to keep using his talents for the time being. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cSometimes the idea of retirement would float past me,\u201d he admitted. \u201cBut as soon as my agent says there\u2019s a job or somebody wants you or they\u2019ve made an offer, the whole thing just boils back into where it was yesterday: how much you\u2019re going to pay, where we\u2019re gonna be?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Now You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t actor also chimed in on the discourse around AI creation <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tilly-norwood\">Tilly Norwood<\/a>, one of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/tilly-norwood-creator-interview-backlash-more-ai-actors-coming-1236601334\/\">40 avatars being rolled out<\/a> from AI talent studio <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/xicoia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Xicoia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cNobody likes her because she\u2019s not real and that takes the part of a real person, so it\u2019s not going to work out very well in the movies or in television,\u201d said Freeman. \u201cThe union\u2019s job is to keep actors acting, so there\u2019s going to be that conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As some of his peers embrace generative artificial intelligence with their own likeness, Morgan Freeman is putting his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,80046,218,219,61,60,24596,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-138840","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-intellegence","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-morgan-freeman","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}