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Actors Critical of New Video Ad Using AI-Generated Humans

The ad features a digital depiction of Toys ‘R’ Us founder Charles Lazarus as a little boy.
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Actors Critical of New Video Ad Using AI-Generated Humans
The SAG-AFTRA logo is displayed outside of the national headquarters on Wilshire Boulevard during the actors strike, in Los Angeles on Oct. 24, 2023. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
Alice Giordano
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Actors are criticizing the first major video ad produced using artificial intelligence (AI) to depict human characters.

The ad is for Toys “R” Us and heralds the resurrection of the toy retail chain, which filed for bankruptcy in 2017 and closed its last store in the United States in 2021.

Alice Giordano
Alice Giordano
Freelance reporter
Alice Giordano is a freelance reporter for The Epoch Times. She is a former news correspondent for The Boston Globe, Associated Press, and the New England bureau of The New York Times.