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The family of a dead British chat show host is resurrecting his career with an AI version of him.
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2024
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Most people seem to hate the idea of AI versions of dead celebrities, but I can't help but be a bit intrigued. I'm a fan of golden-age Hollywood movies from the 1930s to 1950s. Most of that era's stars are dead now, but I'm guessing it's only a matter of time before we see some of their likeness in 'new' versions of old movies. Some people may not like it, but where there are dollars to be made, things tend to happen.
What would 'Casablanca' be like with Spencer Tracy instead of Humphrey Bogart? 'Gone with the Wind' with Vivien Leigh swapped out for Bette Davis. Orson Welles always said his masterpiece would have been 'The Magnificent Ambersons', not 'Citizen Kane', if the former hadn't been destroyed by the studio in editing. Maybe his vision of it can be resurrected by AI versions of the actors recreating scenes from the original script.
"The Life of Brian" but with Philomena Cunk
Saving Private Ryan starring Adam Sandler.
Hard disagree. Any AI version of something is not the vision of anyone. Sure, the prompt engineer worked on it, and someone signed off on which output to use, but unless a lot of retouching is done, it will always be just noise.
If the answer to "why was the curtain blue?" is "the random seed in the image generator dictated it so", that sucks.
People are going to regret locking themselves out like the iron man guy. In a few decades it’s going to be nearly all ai actors and a lot of the present stars are going to burn out and disappear like the olden days actors. But a few will survive through ai and those will be remembered.