LogInFord appreciated Baker's work as Indiana Jones.
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There are roles that "belong" to certain actors, and we can't imagine anyone else there. One of them is Indiana Jones, who will forever be Harrison Ford for us, but time passes, and the actor can't live forever, so the industry has to figure something out.
In Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Ford was made 40 years younger with Industrial Light & Magic's stellar VFX skills. In Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, the protagonist used Troy Baker's voice and motion capture, and it impressed Ford, who told The Wall Street Journal that Baker’s performance answers the question of whether AI should be used to create new content from retired actors.
"You don’t need artificial intelligence to steal my soul," Ford said (via VGC.) "You can already do it for nickels and dimes with good ideas and talent."
As for Baker, Ford thinks he "did a brilliant job, and it didn’t take AI to do it."
Actors have been speaking out against using AI to replicate their voices. Nicolas Cage has recently criticized the notion: "That is a dead end if an actor lets one AI robot manipulate his or her performance even a little bit, an inch will eventually become a mile and all integrity, purity, and truth of art will be replaced by financial interests only. We can't let that happen."
To fight this loss of autonomy, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) called a strike on behalf of actors working on video games last year, fighting for people's right to control their voices.
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