25/06/2026 - 10:45 GMT+2
Every major technological revolution brings unpredictable consequences that are hard to come to terms with, even when it is already too late to act. In the case of unstoppable artificial intelligence, the debate among artists no longer revolves around whether it should exist or be used, but on how to protect themselves from it.
Javier Bardem has repeatedly made public his rejection of this technology because, in his view, it has an enormous capacity to manipulate reality. He has therefore joined Cate Blanchett and other Hollywood stars such as Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Helen Mirren, Kristen Stewart, George Clooney, Viola Davis and Tom Hanks in backing a new online tool where any artist can record the extent of their consent to their face, voice, movements or even ideas being transformed by AI.
The platform, which Blanchett co-founded with Nikki Hexum, Doug Leeds and Eckart Walther, is called rslmedia.org and acts as a human consent identifier.
Artists or content creators simply have to register to verify their identity and state their level of consent, set out in three colour-coded tiers: green, permitted; yellow, use under certain conditions, such as payment; and red, forbidden. This creates a database of practical information that can be used by machines on a large scale.
