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Robert Downey Jr: ‘I will sue all future executives who make AI replicas of me’

The actor who will be returning to the MCU as Doctor Doom said he believed Marvel would ‘never’ recreate him on screen without his permission

Robert Downey Jr has said he will instruct his lawyers to sue future executives who attempt to create digital replicas of him using AI. The actor, who won an Oscar earlier this year for his role in Oppenheimer, about the invention of the atomic bomb, said that the world of AI and deepfakes was not one he ordinarily thought about, “because I have an actual emotional life that’s occurring that doesn’t have a lot of room for that.” In July, Downey Jr announced he would be returning to the MCU after his long-running stint as Tony Stark, this time playing Doctor Doom, one of Marvel’s biggest villains, in the forthcoming Avengers: Doomsday.

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