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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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[–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Robin Williams did that exact thing with Disney in his Aladdin contract

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

    Well, toys less than actual computerized doppelganger. But all the same. Who's gonna call out The Mouse?

    One remaining spark of light in this, I don't think an AI or indeed most writers could mimic anything like the frantic ad-libbing he was known and loved for. But I do think he was loved enough that 98% of the populace would see that movie just to see "him" in something again.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I don't think an AI or indeed most writers could mimic anything like the frantic ad-libbing he was known and loved for.

    I'm not convinced. If you trained a model on all of his performances and scripts, I think it could generate something that could fool most people. Not everything it generates would be terrific, but even if only 1% is good, you just cut out all the rest.

    And that's at the current state of tech.

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