Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey has trademarked his image and voice to protect them from unauthorised use by artificial intelligence (AI) platforms.

Clips including his famous catchphrase “alright, alright, alright” from the 1993 film, Dazed and Confused, have been registered to the United States Patent and Trademark Office database, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports.

Lawyers for the Magic Mike star told the WSJ they had no current examples of McConaughey’s likeness being manipulated by AI, but hoped the trademarks could be used broadly against any unauthorised copies of him.

A secondary aim would be to “capture some of the value that is being created with this new technology”, Kevin Yorn - one of the lawyers representing McConaughey - told the AFP news agency.“My team and I want to know that when my voice or likeness is ever used, it’s because I approved and signed off on it”, McConaughey said via email to the newspaper.

“We want to create a clear perimeter around ownership with consent and attribution the norm in an AI world”.McConaughey is not a hardline opponent of generative AI.

He has a stake in ElevenLabs, a software company specialising in AI voice modelling “for several years now”, according to the 56-year-old.

The company has created an AI audio version of the ‘Interstellar’ actor, with his permission.

I felt the headline is a bit misleading. It seems he is just using the clips as examples of his work to copyright his likeness, which is more than fair. Laws around deepfakes are seriously lacking.

I just hope the court are able to differentiate between a model being able to reproduce someone’s likeness and someone actually doing it and distributing the material. The former is impossible to stop without gutting free local models because of how image to video works.

Bruh, stable diffusion was trained on billions of images, with their owners spanning the globe. My work has about 300 employees all living in one city and it still take a few separate teams with multiple people each to handle it.

You’re simply an idiot if you think it isn’t a nightmare imo. Think before you speak please.

Take a napkin and do some math on how much you think each image is worth and what kind of budget a company would need to put out a model. Ignore the logistics completely.

Google doesn’t mind paying that price because they can recoup it with the monopoly it gives them. You guys are basically begging for a handful of companies to have it all, begging for walled gardens. Legit bootlicking.

I’m saying they stopped owning it the moment they put it on the big websites and signed away their work by clicking the box at the end of the ToS. I don’t think it’s right, just how it is.

I see two choices:

1. Scrapping isn’t considered theft and we all get easy access to these new tools.

2. It’s considered theft and the new tools end up behind censored subscription models while shutter stock makes a shit load of money.

Paying every artists what they are worth is a logistical nightmare because of the amount of data needed. It simply won’t happen and isn’t a realistic scenario. It sucks but sticking your head in the sand and giving a soft monopoly to google and openai only helps google and openai.

No. DeviantArt, Universal, Disney, Shutterstock, Instagram and friends are the juggernauts. Artists already gave it all away.

There isn’t a scenario where individual artists get a piece of that money. Legislation, if it comes, will protect data aggregators, record companies and Hollywood, with the aim of killing open source.

Google paid 60$ million for Reddit’s data and I still haven’t received my dollar. Google would also love it if training a model costs so much only they could afford to build a legal one.

I do include ethics in my decisions. My ethics simply aren’t dictated by copyright juggernauts.

I’m mostly thinking of indie devs and how it can let small teams do more. I think some of these tools are a real boon to the industry, it’s quickly becoming trivial to included animated cut scenes for example. I think the human and inventive part can still shine with competent devs.

I’m not advocating for shovelware here or games that are 90% AI, but a lot of teams that can’t afford certain dedicated positions would probably benefit from using it in some parts of their game.

If it isn’t noticable and gives us a better game, I’m more than willing to ignore the copyright companies constant wailing.

I guess I’m an outlier, I judge games on if they are fun to play.

Spit roasting is now illegal

Is it possible to add to the bounty? Is it like a GoFundMe?

This wasn’t like the GTA online mods. You couldn’t host your own server and had to pay for access to theirs. They never said rockstar forced them to take it down either from what I have seen, it might be they just decided they weren’t making enough money.

Lora communication is line of sight. You would still need quite a few people working together. FSO is harder to intercept but I don’t really know how complicated it is to set up or it’s range.

I’m 100% certain this is true but it doesn’t mean the protests aren’t justified.

Iran basically spent it’s time stacking large quantities of wood while soaking it in gasoline and now they cry foul someone tossed a match in it.

The best way to avoid foreign interference at a protest level is by not treating your citizens like shit.

I noticed they are more often in movies and shows now. I thought we had laws against that.

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NO i didn’t approve of the sale of offensive weapons to Israel and yes it was dead stupid of Biden to live in the 1980’s and for Harris to not disavow that position loudly.

If you know it’s their fault, why pivot the blame to others. Why defend them everytime. They won’t change if they don’t have to, you are enabling them.

Trump didn’t deserve to win and we don’t deserve to have him up there, but I’m not going to applaud the idiots who tried their hardest to lose. Being not as bad doesn’t cut it anymore, they need to be good enough to win. They need to do better and I plan on holding them to it (at least in spirit) instead of pointing fingers at everyone else.

I see blaming voters as class warfare tbh. It’s like massive companies telling us the foreign workers are to blame instead of the ones making the decisions.

No, but I’d rather tell the party that doesn’t represent me to start doing it instead of telling them they did nothing wrong.

I voted for Harris mind you, I just want to vote for someone I truly believe in next time and that won’t happen if we just keep scapegoating. I’m actually scared they might try to run her again at this point.

You don’t need to be a plumber to know that helping kill civilians is a bad way to win an election.

Are you ready to dispute the fact that they sent billions of dollars worth of missiles while the genocide was going on?

Could we maybe warn to party to actually represent us instead?

You are the one rabidly defending a few who pushed it knowing it was deeply unpopular, even while knowing Trump was to be the consequence.

They fucked you too you know, they fucked all of us for a foreign genocidal state. Although I’m not sure if it’s all that foreign to you.