{"id":300268,"date":"2026-02-20T02:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/300268\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T02:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:38:09","slug":"matthew-mcconaughey-predicts-ai-actors-will-infiltrate-the-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/300268\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew McConaughey predicts AI actors will infiltrate the Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI has crept into almost every part of our lives over the last few years, and whether we like it or not, it\u2019s clearly here to stay. Speaking at Variety and CNN\u2019s town hall event<\/a> at the University of Texas, Matthew McConaughey weighed in on the technology\u2019s rise and floated the idea that AI actors could someday infiltrate the Oscars, perhaps sooner than we think.<\/p>\n

Matthew McConaughey on AI<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s coming. It\u2019s already here,\u201d McConaughey said. \u201cDon\u2019t deny it. It\u2019s not going to be enough to sit on the sidelines and make the moral plea that, \u2018No, this is wrong.\u2019 It\u2019s not gonna last. There\u2019s too much money to be made, and it\u2019s too productive. So I say: Own yourself. Voice, likeness, et cetera. Trademark it. Whatever you gotta do, so when it comes, no one can steal you.\u201c<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, McConaughey secured a handful of trademarks from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (including \u201cAlright, alright, alright!\u201d) in an effort to protect his voice and likeness from unauthorized AI use. Of course, as we\u2019ve seen, copyrights really don\u2019t mean a thing<\/a> for many of these AI generators.<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cIt\u2019s damn sure going to infiltrate our category. Does it become another category? Will we be, in five years, having \u2018the best AI film\u2019? \u2018The best AI actor?\u2019 Maybe. I think that might be the thing; it becomes another category. It\u2019s gonna be in front of us in ways that we don\u2019t even see. It\u2019s going to get so good we\u2019re not going to know the difference. That\u2019s one of the big questions right now: the question of reality. It\u2019s more hazy than ever \u2014 in a very exciting way, I think, but also a scary way. Prep for it. Own your own lane, so you at least have agency when it starts to trespass.\u201c<\/p>\n

Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet Has His Own Thoughts<\/p>\n

Joining McConaughey on stage, Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet told the students in the crowd that they\u2019ll be the ones who truly have to figure out what it means to live with AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be all of our war to wage \u2014\u00a0sounds confrontational, I don\u2019t mean to say it like that \u2014 but it\u2019s a dual responsibility,\u201d Chalamet said. \u201cUnfortunately for your generation, I think it\u2019s going to be you guys that figure out how to integrate it. There\u2019s a huge [responsibility for] people that are positions of power now, like myself, like Matthew, to safekeep so that doors stay open. Some of the roles I got that helped kickstart my career, I wouldn\u2019t even know if they\u2019re available today.\u201c<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a level of fatalism I feel,\u201d Chalamet continued. \u201cIt will be on your generation, and mine to an extent, to know how to ethically integrate it, if at all, or do away with it. But the fatalist in me feels like this stuff is coming. And the dreamer in me wants to go, \u2018Hey, if it enables a 19-year-old to produce something they couldn\u2019t otherwise because there\u2019s gatekeepers standing in the way, then [good].\u2019 But ultimately, it\u2019s not my place to say.\u201c<\/p>\n

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