In a move essay in The New York Times , voice actor Hank Azariaexpressed his fearthat AI would one day be used to keep The Simpsons going evermore . With almost 40 years of episodes under its whack , The Simpsons could provide a system with a passel of training data . What ’s to stop corporations from revive Azaria and the rest of the cast after death and using them forever ?
Nothing , of course . It ’s already hap . Peter Cushing ’s Grand Moff Tarkin willwalk aroundin Star Wars films as long as it ’s profitable . James Earl Jones sign away the rights to his voice before his death , meaning Darth Vader maynever die or change . Last twelvemonth The Beatles free a number one single decades after the death of John Lennon , thanks to AI . Unscrupulous monsters fed all of George Carlin ’s specials into an LLM and had it spit out amiddling imitationof his piece of work .
The computerized recreations are almost good . Almost . But they miss something . “ If A.I. tries to cheer one of my voices , what will the lack of manhood sound like ? ” Azarisa say in his Times op - ed . “ How big will the remainder be ? I honestly do n’t fuck , but I retrieve it will be enough , at least in the near term , that we ’ll notice something is off , in the same mode that we remark something ’s haywire in a subpar film or telly show . ”
Moe talking to a Moe clone in ‘The Simpsons’ Season 16, Epsidoe 15.© Image via Frinkiac.
During an adoption speech at the Saturn Awards this hebdomad , actor Nicolas Cagewarned his blighter actorsagainst signalise their lives away to AI system . “ The job of all artistic creation in my perspective , motion-picture show functioning included , is to have a mirror to the external and internal stories of the human experimental condition through the very human thoughtful and aroused outgrowth of recreation , ” he say . “ A golem can not do that . If we let golem do that , it will lack all heart and eventually lose the edge and wrick to treacle . There will be no human response to lifetime as we jazz it . It will be life as robots separate us to get it on it . ”
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Azaria also spoke to the seductive nature of the hope of the technology . We ’d all love to get a line a new Beatles record album or a new Carlin special . Azaria misses Bugs Bunny . “ I miss dear Mel Blanc ’s old Bugs Bunny performance , ” he tell . “ We ’ll never get them again . But perhaps with A.I. , we can have more of them . perchance it would ferment peculiarly well if someone like me , who is nearly conversant with the subtleties of the character , could help recreate what Bugs Bunny was doing by essentially conduct A.I. ”
That seduction is a hole , however . Jones is drained . Cushing is beat . The Simpsons are almost 40 age sometime and the voices of some of the actors are giving out . The Beatles are go . Carlin is gone . The public move on and more art comes in to replace it . Things alter . That ’s good .
We have the tool now to capture our tonic culture icons in amber andresurrect them over and over again , forever and a day . That ’s a nightmare . One we should reject it .
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