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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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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I figured this was coming some day. Do no one remember when Budweiser made that commercial using John Wayne?

That was the day I invasion that movies could be made with dead stars. Imagine a world where you could make a Grown Ups movie and actually have Chris Farley in the film as it was attended. Or bring back John Candy.

Ethical it probably wrong but growing up I thought of this many times and wonder what it would be like.

And the technology is almost there, almost prefected to a point that say in 10 years if stay the course you won't need to hire movie actors in the first place.

So from the perspective from the actors I would be totally against this. But as a fan of movies makes me excited.

[–] Trebach@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There was also the commercial for prostate cancer research starring Bob Monkhouse, which was released in 2007, four years after his death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quxOMX1jl1w

At least in his case, the family granted permission to use his likeness because prostate cancer was his cause of death. An impressionist provided his voice for the commercial, not AI.

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