Interview Harrison Ford points to Troy Baker's Indiana Jones for why he's not worried about AI actors

[SpartaN]

In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, legendary actor Harrison Ford again took the time to praise Troy Baker's performance as Indiana Jones in MachineGames' The Great Circle. Ford offered Baker's performance as a counterpoint to interest in AI-generated digital actors trained on human artists' past performances.

"You don’t need artificial intelligence to steal my soul. You can already do it for nickels and dimes with good ideas and talent," Ford said in response to a question about digital likeness rights, alluding to Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and Troy Baker's performance. "He did a brilliant job, and it didn’t take AI to do it."

It's nice to hear Ford's continued praise for the game and Baker's performance, but it feels like there's a tacit criticism in there as well: "You don't need AI to steal my soul, you can already steal my soul." I don't think the dig was necessarily aimed at Troy Baker or even MachineGames, but rather our culture-wide inability to let characters, fictional settings, and even individual performances go. "There won’t be any need for me. There’s somebody behind me. Doing what I did," Ford argued, "And that’s the attraction. It’s what’s coming."

Harrison Ford points to Troy Baker's Indiana Jones for why he's not worried about AI actors: 'You don't need artificial intelligence to steal my soul'

"He did a brilliant job, and it didn't take AI to do it."

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[FatalMaiden]

No one cares about souls. We want our little treats and to clap our hands when we see a our favourite references

 

[Klark Kent]

AI is supposed to be doing all the shit we don't want to do, not all the things we want to do. Someone fked up

 

[Jakelmoss]

And still the best Indy game is Fate of Atlantis which came out in the early 90s. And the voice actor did a pretty good job on probably zero money compared to today. Now the voice actor for Marcus on the other hand...

 

[Lunar Man]

Harrison Ford isn't worried about AI actors or AI in general because he plans to be dead in the near future. It simply won't be his problem.