Celebrities such as James Dean can be brought back to life thanks to artificial intelligence, but it is raising troubling questions about what rights any of us have after we die.

[James] Dean has been cast as the star in a new, upcoming movie called Back to Eden.

  • Rose56@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    Come on thats crazy, why should they make new content with dead people? Should we bring back Marilyn Monroe? would it be enjoyable to watch movies or even a Ads of dead people, that are made by AI? Leave the dead where he is, its not a good idea to use dead actors/stars. Yes they had a success back in their era, but now its a new era, and we need something new not old. As for the rights, I believe they should ban any form of AI related in movies etc., it may be just the beginning.

  • Fredselfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      But it isn’t bringing those people back. It’s bringing approximations of them back. AI John Candy won’t make the comedic decisions and acting choices of the real John Candy. What you love is their talent, not their physical appearance and voice.

      • Fredselfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I disagree I believe we can bring those people to life on film. Take Chris Farley for example. You take all the films and the years on Saturday Night Live. Combine that with probably 100’s of hours if not more of interviews and behind the scene footage. Then take everything every written by him. There is apparently 90% of his voice for the original Shrek movie out there. Add that too.

        Put it all into an algorithm with AI and you could probably get pretty damn close short of having the real life person.

        Watch and see if they decide to push forward with this technology (and seems rhey do) we could see tons of long dead actors come back to life in new movies and film.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          So you’re saying this AI knows comedy like Chris Farley knew comedy? Because I haven’t even seen an AI that can tell a good joke yet.

  • OhFudgeBars@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Maybe I’m too optimistic, but I get the feeling that AI necromancy will be the next 3D. It’ll be a fad for a few years, and then we’ll wonder where “look kids, it’s [dead/old actor]!” went. Maybe AI will find a useful place in film, maybe it won’t, but I doubt it will be one of the main draws for very long.