Vincent Elbaz refuses to change his image by AI

« I do not agree. » The actor Vincent Elbaz revealed on Friday that he had refused, for the sake of ethics, retouching of his image by artificial intelligence (AI) offered to him by film directors.

« The acting profession is body and mind », declares the 53-year-old actor at a press conference in Paris to present the “counter-summit of artificial intelligence” which will take place at the Théâtre de la Concorde on February 10. The conference will take place in parallel with the World Summit “for Action on AI” in Paris.

 

Do I have the choice ? I don’t know, it’s not my film, I’m not the director. But there I did not consent : To damage my face, I used to work with the makeup artists.

Vincent Elbaz

Vincent Elbaz claims to have been offered a role in which his face would be aged via the retouching of images during post-production, instead of makeup during filming. « Do I have the choice ? I don’t know, it’s not my film, I’m not the director. But there I did not consent : to damage my face, I used to work with the makeup artists »he said.

« I will have to get up very early and go through two hours of makeup. But I don’t interest me that I am avoiding this effortexplains the actor, soon to be playing in Hands up of Julie Manoukian. « The effort I provide is part of the profession. For example, for some roles, months of intense physical preparation are needed. There, I will offer me : do your preparation and, if you can’t exactly happen to what you are asking, if there are things to correct, we will adjust by artificial intelligence. No, I don’t agree »he says.

 

« We are in danger. Our voices are looted. »»

Brigitte Lecordier, dubbing actress.

Vincent Elbaz is one of the witnesses, called during this “counter-syst”, who will share their experience of the incidence of AI on their profession. Another concerned, also present in front of the press on Friday, Brigitte Lecordier, dubbing actress, alerted to the threat hovering over her profession.

« We are in danger. Our voices are looted, we are stolen from them to reproduce them by IA, and we did not give our agreement for that »declares the one who is known for the voice of Son Goku in Dragon Ball Z. She claims that the Ministry of Culture remained deaf to the requests to discuss it, despite a petition of 160,000 signatures to support the profession. « We have still not been received by the ministry. We are 5 000 actors who try, through a bias or another, an acquaintance … and nothing works. I think it doesn’t interest them »she deplores.