• MysticKetchup@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Like what even is a legitimate use case for these? It just seems tailor made for either misinformation or pointless memes, neither of which seem like a good sales pitch

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        6 months ago

        Maybe a historical biopic in the style of photos of the time. Like take pictures of Lincoln, Grant, Lee, etc., use voice actors plus modern reenactors for background characters, and build it into a whole movie.

        I dunno, I’m probably reaching.

      • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works
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        6 months ago

        I could see a few uses, but the biggest would probably be advertising. Tailored ads that look like they’re coming from a real person.

        Imagine Jake from State Farm addressing you personally about your insurance in an ad.

        Not that I endorse advertising, I’d like to see it all banned.

        I think it could be useful to humanise some things though and talking to a “person” AI in a video call might be more comfortable for some people wanting to do tasks such as say navigate my mobile phone carriers shitty AI help system.

        Really any sort of AI assistant device could benefit from a human imprint.

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        6 months ago

        Say you’re a movie studio director making the next big movie with some big name celebs. Filming is in progress, and one of the actor dies in the most on brand way possible. Everyone decides that the film must be finished to honor the actor’s legacy, but how can you film someone who is dead? This technology would enable you to create footage the VFX team can use to lay over top of stand-in actor’s face and provide a better experience for your audience.

        I’m sure there are other uses, but this one pops to mind as a very legitimate use case that could’ve benefited from the technology.

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          6 months ago

          this is so dystopian. Imagine spending your career honing your skill as an actor, dying and then having a computer replace you with just a photograph as a source. How is that honoring an actor??

          An actual, practical example is generating video for VR chats like Apple has somewhat tried to do with their headset. Rather than using the cameras/sensors to generate and animate a 3d model based on you, it could do something more like this, albeit 2d.

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          6 months ago

          how can you film someone who is dead?

          Hot take: don’t? They’re dead, leave them dead. Rewrite and reshoot if you really have to.

        • MysticKetchup@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          We’ve already recreated dead actors or older actors whole cloth with VFX. Plus it still seems like a niche use case for something that can be done by VFX artists that can also do way more

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          6 months ago

          Gotta crank up that dystopia meter.

          This is slowly moving toward having Content On Demand. Imagine being able to prompt your content app for a movie/series you want to watch, and it just makes it and streams it to you.

      • Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        6 months ago

        I think you’re falling for the overblown fearmongering headline, and pointless memes is a great reason to make things.