Recently, Zhang Songwen was invited to participate in the 2023 Cultural Power Construction Summit Forum Film Industry High-quality Development Sub-forum speech activities, he with the theme of "acting well, filming good dramas" talked about his views on hot topics such as artificial intelligence, AI face changing applications and related anxiety topics, it is reported that director Guo Fan once showed him a very perfect performance, and later told him that it was created by face-changing technology, and he was indeed the same as many people, so he was anxious and afraid that his career would also be replaced. But soon he was relieved again, and what he said touched the audience.
Zhang Songwen: I was a little frustrated when I chatted with Guo Fan, he took out his mobile phone and showed me a 30-second video, an old man was indoors, his expression was sad, I read it and said that he was very distracted, very good, and then he told me that this is a performance made by AI, this person does not exist, I asked him if he didn't borrow the face of an actor? He said no, I know that AI changed faces, because I have been changed many times, I have seen myself singing and dancing on the Internet, my father is very unaware of how you became like this, I said that I was changed faces, he didn't understand.
Teacher Guo Fan showed me a completely virtual character, but I didn't see that it was made by computer, Guo Fan said "this is the challenge of the future", I lost sleep for a night, I asked how long before this day came? He said it had arrived, I could go and watch "The Wandering Earth 2", he used AI technology to make a young Andy Lau.
Zhang Songwen: Will there be a day when the actor industry does not exist? Because it can copy countless real people out, and even replace my performance, people only need to authorize it, do not need me to be present, such a benefit is that 30 movies can be made a year, thinking of this is a little sad, I am still inert, AI is perfect, but humans because of defects become more real, which is exactly what AI can not do, just like in the venue, some people are preoccupied, some people are distracted, because of a variety of personal expressions, it constitutes the truth of this venue.
Zhang Songwen's thinking is very profound, did not blindly reject the benefits of AI because AI development may replace his work in the future, but amplified the benefits of AI, recognized the desirability of this technology, and also pointed out the necessity of real people's performance, if all by AI to perform, then even if the performance is perfect, but because of the high neatness of data statistics, the pursuit of perfection, and lost some of the various possibilities, less entertainment, some fun, some real texture, It may be that the individual will be very expressive, but in a large collective, it is impossible to achieve the diversity of human groups.
Zhang Songwen is likely to be the next Zhang Xiaofei, Zhang Xiaofei is also a well-known sketch actor, outstanding acting skills, because Jia Ling gave the protagonist of "Hello Li Huanying" and became completely popular, but just such a work and a role, because of the publicity and the connotation of the story, let an actor become popular, now Zhang Xiaofei has no other works out of the circle, Zhang Songwen seems to be like this, because a Gao Qiqiang character became popular, and now there is no splash, Zhang Yi's "Who is He" actually lacks saturation in the story, so word of mouth has not exploded, But in the face of all this, he was indifferent.
Zhang Songwen's interest is not only Gao Qiqiang, but also closely related to his own social attributes, such as the explosive confrontation with Zhang Yi, who is both a friend and an enemy in the play, and the same is true outside the play, he and his sister-in-law Gao Ye help each other in the play, and outside the play, when he met director Chen Kaige, he recommended Gao Ye, and the humanity of the entertainment industry is also reflected in Zhang Songwen, for example, Chen Kaige pushed Zhang Ziyi away as soon as he saw Zhang Songwen, and Zhang Songwen, who was originally a small transparent, because Gao Qiqiang's role was red, Immediately won Zhang Ziyi's favor, these are quite realistic, but this reality can give the actor a very profound understanding of people and objects, and finally can play those big people and small people.
Data can indeed derive a lot of perfect works, a lot of interesting brain holes, but many times it will be because of a variety of confused information to cause confused answers, not necessarily correct, reasonable, or even because of excessive imagination and lack of truth, because too uniform, lack of soul, human existence can not be completely replaced by AI, AI is always a tool.