‘Scary’: 24 years after The Matrix, Keanu Reeves continues his fight against artificial intelligence

24 years ago, in the first part of the Matrix saga, he gave his functions to Neo, a computer hacker who has been trying to free himself from the machines throughout his existence. Today, Keanu Reeves indirectly continues the fight against the excesses of artificial intelligence, as he recently stated on the microphone. Wired.

Indeed, for several years, especially in the background of the development of deep fake technology, the actor decided to add a clause to his contracts, which stipulated that his performances could not be digitally modified under any circumstances without his consent.

“I don’t care if someone removes the wink during editing. But in the early 2000s, or maybe the 90s, one of my performances changed.”Keanu Reeves explained.

“They brought tears to my face (…). Like I didn’t even need to be there.”

Always at the microphone WiredThe actor continues his reasoning by invoking deepfake, a digital process that allows, for example, the actor’s expressions to be superimposed on another person’s face:

“The sad thing is that you lose the ability to act. When you do a performance in a movie, you know it’s being edited, but you’re participating in it. When you go into a deep fake world, your views are not considered. Score. It’s terrible. It will be interesting to see how they cope people to these technologies.”

Culturally, socially, we find ourselves face to face with the value of reality.

Also asked about the echoes that the Matrix saga may find in our time, 20 years after the release of the first film and in the light of these new technologies, Keanu Reeves answered really about the evolution of our relationship:

“I was once trying to explain the plot of ‘The Matrix’ to a 15-year-old boy and tell him that my character was really fighting for something that was real. If it’s real.” People grow up with these tools. We’re already listening to music composed by AI like Nirvana is digital art with NFTs.”

“You think, ‘Look what these lovely machines can do.’ But there’s a corporate force behind it that’s trying to control it all. Culturally, socially, we’re going to face the value of reality, or the lack of value.”

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