Gooberking
FGC Cannon Fodder
I know I'm backing up all the way to the beginning, but it probably has very little directly to do with digging into his direct situation, and much more about using his situation to segue into a larger discussion the entertainment (and most other industries) are having to have about how much for how little AI is potentially allowing for. It's just a conversation starter.I'm kinda confused by the question- or why he'd ask others if it was worth it, when really o ly his judgmenthere matters. But if it was me. Hell yeah.
Being a face model is never gonna be some repeating lucrative contract, it's just too easy to find someone who'll do it for less and still fits the bill.
The face model for Eli Vance in Half Life 2 was famously just some dude Valve employees saw on the street with a "looking for work" sign.
Entertainment companies were looking to cop permanent likeness ownership rights for people off as little as being a background extra. In his case he probably knew what he was giving away at the time[,] though [now] the nature of the discussion and the scope of what it means is now much larger now. There are plenty of people feeling a way about that now that differs from a couple of years ago, and that might include feeling a way about him and not view this sort of thing as an "only his judgement matters" situation. Instead seeing as one where they all have some responsibility to not let physical and vocal likenesses be copied, stored and become automatic property of companies instead of assets and skills from the people they intrinsically belong to.
It seems like a reasonable entry into a complex discussion and understandable to feel uncertain the about choices made that might make someone want to have that discussion. IDK if any of that matters in the scope of the comment, but I think if I was in that situation, I'd want to be talking about these things too. It's kind of hard not to in a lot of industries
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