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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-20T16:40:04.000Z",
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    "Ai",
    "Ai actor",
    "Timothee chalamet",
    "Acting",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\n_Interstellar_ co-stars Matthew McConaughey and Timothée Chalamet took the stage at the University of Texas at Austin for a special CNN and Variety Town Hall, where they discussed one of the most important areas of Hollywood's current change: AI.\n\n\nThe actors started with a conversation about craft, but the AI question thrust them into a rampage about what's happening right now and how the craft of acting must be protected.\n\nLet's dive in.\n\n* * *\n\n### Matthew McConaughey and Timothée Chalamet Take on AI\n\n\n\n\n> \n\nYou can head over to Variety for full coverage of the roundtable discussion, but the biggest part that interested me was when McConaughey, an Academy Award winner, delivered a blunt prediction about the future of the Oscars.\n\nHe was responding to a student’s question about the longevity of human performance in a world with AI, when McConaughey warned that the industry is on the verge of a reality-blurring shift.\n\n“It’s coming. It’s already here,” McConaughey said. “Don’t deny it. It’s not going to be enough to sit on the sidelines and make the moral plea that, ‘No, this is wrong.’ It’s not gonna last. There’s too much money to be made, and it’s too productive. So I say: Own yourself. Voice, likeness, et cetera. Trademark it. Whatever you gotta do, so when it comes, no one can steal you.”\"\n\nMcConaughey went on to talk about whether or not AI could be nominated for acting Oscars. What sounds far-fetched could be happening soon.\n\n“It’s damn sure going to infiltrate our category. Does it become another category? Will we be, in five years, having ‘the best AI film’? ‘The best AI actor?'” he continued.\n\n“Maybe. I think that might be the thing; it becomes another category. It’s gonna be in front of us in ways that we don’t even see. It’s going to get so good we’re not going to know the difference. That’s one of the big questions right now: the question of reality. It’s more hazy than ever — in a very exciting way, I think, but also a scary way. Prep for it. Own your own lane, so you at least have agency when it starts to trespass.”\n\nThese words echoed across the internet as they went viral. While we saw the Brad Pitt vs Tom Cruise AI fight, and that won't be up for any wards, the idea that they can steal you as a person remains very real.\n\nChalamet also weighed in and talked about how it's on younger generations to step up to protect humanity as well.\n\n“It’s going to be all of our war to wage — sounds confrontational, I don’t mean to say it like that — but it’s a dual responsibility,” Chalamet said. “Unfortunately for your generation, I think it’s going to be you guys that figure out how to integrate it. There’s a huge [responsibility for] people that are in positions of power now, like myself, like Matthew, to safekeep so that doors stay open. Some of the roles I got that helped kickstart my career, I wouldn’t even know if they’re available today.”\n\nBut what if this all feels inevitable?\n\nWell, these guys share in that dread.\n\n“There’s a level of fatalism I feel,” Chalamet continued. “It will be on your generation, and mine to an extent, to know how to ethically integrate it, if at all, or do away with it. But the fatalist in me feels like this stuff is coming. And the dreamer in me wants to go, ‘Hey, if it enables a 19-year-old to produce something they couldn’t otherwise because there’s gatekeepers standing in the way, then [good].’ But ultimately, it’s not my place to say.”****\n\nChalamet finished with the idea that the industry will find a way to embrace AI that benefits everyone. Otherwise, it's hard to see it existing.\n\n“I wanna keep the doors open for you guys. But someone’s gonna figure out how to do it all at once,” he said. “I’m fiercely protective of actors and artists in this industry. And equally, whatever tide is coming, it’s coming.”****\n\n## Summing It All Up\n\nThe specter of AI looms larger than ever in Hollywood, and I don't think it's going away any time soon. But the technology doesn't pause for ethical debates, so the only way to survive is to ensure the \"human\" remains a legally protected brand.\n\nLet me know what you think in the comments.",
  "title": "Matthew McConaughey Predicts AI Actors Will \"Crash The Oscars\""
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