Meta Platforms Inc. (Facebook's parent company) has been in negotiations with high-profile Hollywood celebrities like Awkwafina, Judi Dench, and Keegan-Michael Key to secure the rights to use their voices for AI projects, including a potential digital assistant called MetaAI and AI tools across platforms.
The company reportedly offered potential fees in the millions of dollars for the celebrities' voice recordings, with plans to finalize deals before its Connect conference in September.
The negotiations faced concerns from various parties over issues such as usage rights, conditions, project duration, job displacement, the impact on the entertainment industry, voice manipulation, deepfakes, and intellectual property rights.
According to a New York Post report, Meta ended its failed celebrity AI chatbots after users ignored them.
Sources: Bloomberg, NYTimes, The Verge, PCMag, Engadget, Times of India, Benzinga, NYPost, The Hindu, Mashable, Daily Star, Cape Town Etc, AceShowbiz, ABP Live, Headtopics, elBlog.
This article was written in collaboration with Generative AI news company Alchemiq.
