Keanu Reeves has objections to the power of CGI (computer-generated imagery) technology, so much so that years ago, he added a clause to his contracts stating that his movie appearances cannot be faked without his consent.

As the use of technology AI (Artificial Intelligence) is becoming increasingly prevalent in filmmaking, has called into question the ethics of digitally altering actors’ performances.

The star of the “John Wick” film series told Wired in a new interview: “In the early 2000s, or maybe it was the 90s, they changed my interpretation.” The actor did not mention the film. “They brought a tear to my face and I was like, ‘It was like I don’t even need to be here,'” Reeves explained.

When asked if he later added a clause to his contracts forbidding post-production edits to his performance, he confirmed: “Yes, digitally.”

In 2021, headlines were made that Bruce Willis had appeared in a Russian telecommunications ad using deepfake technology.

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The deepfakes they are synthetic media in which one person’s face or body is replaced with someone else’s likeness-digital twin.

“What’s frustrating about it is that you lose the ability to act,” Reeves said of deepfakes. “When you’re acting in a movie, you know you’re going to be edited, but you’re part of it.”

“If you enter the world of deepfakes, your opinions don’t exist. This is scary. It will be interesting to see how people deal with these technologies” he estimated.

“Technologies find a place in our education, in our medicine, in our entertainment, in our politics and in how we fight and how we work,” said Keanu Reeves.