Robert Downey Jr. appeared on a current episode of the “On with Kara Swisher” podcast and despatched a stern warning to Hollywood within the age of AI: “I intend to sue all future executives” who log out on the creation of a Downey digital duplicate. The Oscar winner doesn’t need his likeness getting used on display screen by way of AI know-how and/or deepfakes. The subject got here up in relation to Downey’s Marvel tenure as Iron Man, however he’s assured Marvel wouldn’t recreate his Tony Stark by way of AI.
“There’s two tracks. How do I fell about the whole lot that’s occurring? I really feel about it minimally as a result of I’ve an precise emotional life that’s occurring that doesn’t have numerous room for that,” Downey stated when requested about being digitally recreated sooner or later.
“To return to the MCU, I’m not apprehensive about them hijacking my character’s soul as a result of there’s like three or 4 guys and gals who make all the selections there anyway and they might by no means try this to me, with or with out me,” he added.
When host Kara Swisher stated that “future executives actually will” need to digitally recreate Downey on the massive display screen, the actor responded: “Properly, you’re proper. I want to right here state that I intend to sue all future executives simply on spec.”
“You’ll be lifeless,” Swisher famous, to which Downey replied: “However my legislation agency will nonetheless be very lively.”
Downey is at present confronting the way forward for AI on Broadway within the play “McNeal,” which takes intention at company giants within the AI house corresponding to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
“I don’t envy anybody who has been over-identified with the arrival of this new section of the data age. The concept by some means it belongs to them as a result of they’ve these tremendous large start-ups is a fallacy,” Downey advised Swisher about figures like Altman. “The issue is when these people consider that they’re the arbiters of managing this however in the meantime are wanting and/or needing to be seen in a good mild. That may be a large fucking error. It turns me off and makes me not need to interact with them as a result of they aren’t being truthful.”
Downey is at present gearing as much as return to Marvel, however he’s doing as a human being and never a digital duplicate of Tony Stark. He’s truly not enjoying Tony Stark/Iron Man in any respect and is as a substitute taking up the function of the villainous Physician Doom beginning in 2026’s “Avengers: Doomsday.”
Hearken to Downey’s full interview on the “On with Kara Swisher” podcast here.
