#Robin Williams’ Daughter Zelda Criticizes Use of AI to Recreate His Voice: “I Find It Personally Disturbing”

#Robin Williams’ Daughter Zelda Criticizes Use of AI to Recreate His Voice: “I Find It Personally Disturbing”

Robin Williams‘ daughter Zelda is speaking out against the use of artificial intelligence to recreate the sound of her father’s voice. “I am not an impartial voice in SAG’s fight against AI. I’ve witnessed for YEARS how many people want to train these models to create/recreate actors who cannot consent, like Dad,” she wrote on…

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#Toronto: Cord Jefferson’s ‘American Fiction’ Wins Audience Award

#Toronto: Cord Jefferson’s ‘American Fiction’ Wins Audience Award

Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction picked up the top People’s Choice honor Sunday at the Toronto Film Festival, which wrapped up a 48th edition with little Hollywood star wattage amid the uncertainty of dual Hollywood strikes. Jefferson’s feature directorial debut, an adaptation for Orion of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure, had its world premiere in Toronto at the Princess…

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#Spencer and Heidi Pratt on Extending Their “16th Minute” of Fame With New Podcast and Why They Hope Reality Stars Don’t Unionize

#Spencer and Heidi Pratt on Extending Their “16th Minute” of Fame With New Podcast and Why They Hope Reality Stars Don’t Unionize

The phrase “15 minutes of fame” simply doesn’t apply to Spencer and Heidi Pratt, the husband-and-wife reality star duo better known as “Speidi” since they began dating during the second season of the Laguna Beach spinoff The Hills. Since those early 2000s MTV reality docuseries days, the couple, who eloped in Mexico on Nov. 20,…

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#‘Morning Show’ Bosses on Casting Jon Hamm as Tech Billionaire: “It Was a List of One”

#‘Morning Show’ Bosses on Casting Jon Hamm as Tech Billionaire: “It Was a List of One”

[This story contains spoilers from the first two episodes of The Morning Show season three, “The Kármán Line” and “Ghost in the Machine.”] In the first episode of The Morning Show‘s return, Jennifer Aniston’s character’s hot take on the new tech titan played by Jon Hamm is that he’s a “need-for-speed, hardass from Silicon Valley.” Top UBA…

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