"A new report from Nielsen and published by Variety reveals that nobody is watching the most recent trio of core Star Wars films"
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I don't remember for sure what techniques they used for the recreation, but I had thought they used some deepfake technology (which was in use well before "from scratch" image generation by AI model was feasible). Maybe I'm wrong - though I'd bet that's what OP meant, regardless.