Digital doubles, fake trailers: AI worries Hollywood actors before labor talks

FILE PHOTO: Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus (C), star of the Warner Bros. Television series 'The New Adventures of the Old Christine', and a member of the Screen Actors Guild carries a picket sign at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California November 5, 2007 as she joins members of the Writers Guild America who are on strike against Hollywood film and television producers. REUTERS/Fred Prouser/File Photo

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A search for Wes Anderson on YouTube turns up trailers that the famed director with a distinctive style appears to have made for adaptations of "Star Wars," "Harry Potter" and "The Lord of the Rings" featuring Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson and other stars.

Artificial intelligence allowed people with no real actors and far smaller resources than major Hollywood studios to generate the fake movie trailers, feeding debate on the issue that will be on the bargaining table when the SAG-AFTRA actors union begins labor talks with studios on June 7.