Keanu Reeves Confirms His Film Contracts Ban Digital Edits to His Acting
“You lose your agency," says Keanu Reeves about deepfakes. “When you give a performance in a film, you know you’re going to be edited, but you’re participating in that. If you go into deepfake land, it has none of your points of view. That’s scary.” https://t.co/MWrvU7d3Wx
- Tech Won't Save Us (@techwontsaveus) February 15, 2023
The article is from Variety.
- Says in the 90s, someone added a tear to his face -- "It was like, I don't even have to be here'
- Doesn't mind minor edits like removing blinks.
- considers it a loss of agency -- 'if you go into deepfake land, it has none of your points of view. That's scary'.
- "But there’s a corporatocracy behind it that’s looking to control those things. Culturally, socially, we’re gonna be confronted by the value of real, or the non-value. And then what’s going to be pushed on us? What’s going to be presented to us?”