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How AI is bringing film stars back from the dead (www.bbc.com)
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[James] Dean has been cast as the star in a new, upcoming movie called Back to Eden.

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[–] 16 points 3 years ago (9 children)

Y'know, in my darkest moments, I've taken solace in the fact that suicide would also mean I wouldn't have to partake in capitalism anymore.

This feels like literal hell. Not even suicide will let you escape.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    You're not actually "in" the picture. The camera doesn't steal your soul.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Distinction without a difference

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Howso? If you're dead then you've "escaped", the shuffling of pixels by living people after that has no effect on you. You've gone off to wherever it is that dead people go (be it an afterlife or nowhere at all).

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    It uses my likeness. This might lead people to believe, consciously or not, that I endorse the message, that's the point of the technology.

    It doesn't matter if I or my likeness has convinced someone of a view in a practical sense, so does it matter morally?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I'm addressing your comment that "This feels like literal hell."

    No, it doesn't. Once you're dead you don't feel any of this.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yes, it does. I didn't write "this will feel like literal hell", I wrote "this feels [...]", as in I am currently experiencing said feeling.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    That seems like even more of an overreaction to me. But I guess if you feel that way you feel that way. Maybe you should avoid the news for a while, there's going to be a lot more applications for AI like this one coming up.

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