{"id":472940,"date":"2026-02-17T01:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/472940\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:48:08","slug":"nancy-cartwright-would-rather-not-be-replaced-by-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/472940\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Cartwright would rather not be replaced by AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like most actors who take pride in their work and talents, Nancy Cartwright would rather not be replaced by an AI imitation of her voice. The voice of Bart Simpson, Ralph Wiggum, Nelson Muntz, and countless other The Simpsons characters confirmed her stance on the issue in an interview published by People<\/a> this weekend ahead of the series\u2019 800th episode.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I would choose a successor [instead of AI], and I\u2019ll tell you why \u2014 because AI has no heart and I think that\u2019s a missing ingredient,\u201d Cartwright said when asked about her potential retirement. \u201c[AI] might sound pretty close to Nancy Cartwright, but I got passion. We\u2019re spiritual beings, we can emote passion and uplift people and stuff. And I don\u2019t know that a computer can do something like that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cartwright\u2019s comments echo similar ones made by co-star Hank Azaria last year. \u201cIf A.I. tries to recreate one of my voices, what will the lack of humanness sound like? How big will the difference be?\u201d he wrote in a New York Times op-ed at the time. Shortly thereafter, Azaria played with some of the AI<\/a> and determined that it couldn\u2019t yet replicate his voices, at least not to the quality you\u2019d want if you were going to use the tech over a real actor. (Not for nothing, a good portion of the cast\u2019s voices have changed over the 36 years The Simpsons has been on the air\u2014another point for the humanness of their work.) But that was also before Disney entered into a partnership with OpenAI<\/a> and announced plans to add AI-generated shortform videos<\/a> to Disney+, which would presumably allow for customers to generate clips featuring Bart Simpson. Even if The Simpsons eventually ends up with a new Bart, it\u2019s not hard to imagine that Fortnite never will<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like most actors who take pride in their work and talents, Nancy Cartwright would rather not be replaced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-472940","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-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}