"The veteran actor who notably served as the narrator in The Shawshank Redemption, played God in Bruce Almighty and its sequel, Evan Almighty, and voiced documentaries like The Civil War and March of the Penguins said that his lawyers have already uncovered many instances of the unauthored used of his voice, and are pursuing action against quite a few of them. Well, I tell you, my lawyers have been very, very busy, he told The Guardian."
"When asked about the controversy surrounding AI actress Tilly Norwood, Freeman, 88, didn't mince words with this opposition. Nobody likes her because she's not real, and that takes the part of a real person, so it's not going to work out very well in the movies or in television, he said. The union's job is to keep actors acting, so there's going to be that conflict."
Morgan Freeman has initiated legal action against parties using artificial intelligence to reproduce his voice without permission or compensation. He objected to unauthorized mimicry, saying such uses deprive him of work and payment. His legal team has identified multiple instances of unauthorized voice use and is pursuing cases. Freeman criticized the synthetic performer Tilly Norwood as not real and said replacing human performers with synthetic ones undermines real actors. SAG-AFTRA has expressed concern that synthetic actors could displace live performers. Particle 6 founder Eline Van der Velden created the synthetic performer at the center of the controversy.
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