Morgan Freeman is in his 7th decade of working in Hollywood, and even at 88 years old, still doesn’t have any concrete plans to retire from the industry, having appeared in both the third Now You See Me movie and narrated Ken Burns’ American Revolution in 2025. It doesn’t sound like he’s exceedingly enthused about potentially having one of his signature traits duplicated and taken advantage of by AI companies trying to make digital performers like Tilly Norwood more of the norm in an industry where human creativity has always reigned supreme.
Appearing on CBS Morning News (in a clip shared to Instagram, Morgan Freeman was asked about his stance on the wave of AI startups attempting to use likenesses of actors to populate their user-generated videos, and for a guy whose known for waxing poetically with his dulcet tones, the Se7en vet showed off some very non-artificial brevity with his snappy response:
