He isn't staring in it. He's dead.
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God forbid, a new and talented actor is discovered...
My headcanon is that everything after 2008 was all reboots and remakes and now revived actors, and that’s why all the Star Trek references end there.
They take him because his face is known and loved. What reason would there be to take someone nobody knows? You can make up a new, imaginary actor and not pay anyone, not even family. What a wonderful world that'll be, without the need for pesky humans!
replace the with /s and read again.
only that /s doesn't really fit, because it's a mix of sarcasm and hate and it's getting harder to cope.
Okay I thought so, but the hard shift between the first and 2nd sentence made me confused who you were being sarcastic to.
I think the realization came while writing and I was too lazy to adjust. I'm tired of ... all of this.
Essentially grave robbing memory instead of rings and jewelry. The rot grows.
Well I guess this is how I found out that Val Kilmer died.
This is utterly disgusting.
will star in the drama As Deep As the Grave.
Though at least the irony isn’t missed.
Here is what I find funny, there was years in the early 2000's where he was alive and healthy and he was not getting great roles or as much attention.
Now he is dead and they are trying to revive him. Like it feels so silly to try to bring back someone with AI to make it like he is alive and healthy again. Those days are gone. Executives are using AI to live in denial.
Has anyone thought this through to its logical conclusion? If we're constantly resurrecting old talent using AI, or whatever the tech du jour is, then won't we stagnate culturally?
Culturally, scientifically, intelligently, you name it we’ve reached the peak. AI is just recycling what humans have thought and said, According to our new ai overlords we just coast from here
A global surveillance state, is the end goal. These uses of AI are merely to push that goal forward by giving use to the tool for the masses to accept more data centers
Culture isn't defined by the use or abuse of AI.
It's a tool when used creatively with full public knowledge, and a weapon when it's used to surreptitiously decieve.
As an artists tool for seamlessly putting a character into a story, is it any different than how videogames are made with an actor's face slapped onto another actor's motion captured movements?
It's not like the aforementioned film producers are trying to hide their use of it.
I thought the Actors' Strikes were supposed to prevent this bullshit? What the actual fuck.
His family is okay with this??? Are they that fucking greedy???
This is absolutely bullshit, but also half-assed cowardice. Like if you're going to put dead people who cannot consent to the use of their image in your project, why not make Martin Luther King Jr the next T'challa in the MCU? Why not make Pope Benedict fight the mandelorian?
Celebrity Deathmatch with AI figures might be ok but i’d prefer claymation for the nostalgia.
I mean... did you read the article? He really wanted to be in the film, and his family and estate think this is the right move and what he would have wanted. It wasn't clear if they talked to him about it or not, but this isn't just a blatant lets do it thing with no consideration.
We're reaching levels of "torture John Candy in the metaverse" that we were only beginning to imagine a couple years ago.
You will never be allowed to die. You will dance for the cameras until history forgets your name and you're just a reflection of a reflection in an endless hall of mirrors, with no relation to who you might have ever been in reality. No more actors, pure simulacrum.
I'm not gonna watch it, but can I anti-watch it, so my 'view' counts negatively against it?
For those who didn't read: Val himself had already signed up for this movie and it apparently meant a lot to him to star in it. The producers contacted his family to discuss the matter, and they consented to the idea.
It’s coming for their pop culture, one of the few things that sets them apart from the rest.
Fuck them. Val was a treasure, don’t besmirch him with this capitalist bullshit!
Fuck this movie, whatever it is, I’ll rather rewatch The Salton Sea, instead.
Also, watch The Salton Sea, it’s so under appreciated.
The more we participate in it, the more slop they create.
This is a NO from me.
Holy clickbait title, Batman.
This is no more a "resurrection" than drawing a picture of someone is.
It definitely is. It's not resurrecting, obviously. But it's definitely weird and a lot more something than drawing a picture. I'm not against it or for it, but it's definitely a new idea that I'm not 100% behind. They should definitely try it and see how it feels. But even now, thinking about it, something about it feels really wrong that I just can't quite put my finger on...
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