>Imagine a world of no celebrities. No TMZ. No gossip columns. No infotainmant on the news. No faux outrage scandals.

You'd still have all of those things, because those are all part of the business that drives entertainment. The entire scandal complex would just be automated and generated by AI along with the rest of consumer culture, but it won't go away. Why would it, when there's so much money to be made?

There will be probably be more of it, not less, because once you have perfectly convincing virtual celebrities, you can include perfectly convincing virtual dead celebrities as well, and fictional characters within their respective fictional worlds.

That reminds me of a definition I gave once of one of those tv series full of mysteries and supernatural events that should all be explained by some underlying reality that, alas, never existed even in the minds of the authors.

"Like a gossip magazine about non-existent people"

It seems that people would actually buy and read them avidly.

>It seems that people would actually buy and read them avidly.

They would. It's basically making an industry out of what already happens in fandom.

Weekly World News?

Most likely, celebrities will hire nobodies to be body doubles for them, to do the hard work of actually making movies / tv shows, and then the AIs will fill in their faces later.

It would be interesting movies and TV shows would be viewer customisable. I would love to see an ai that can read a novel and create a movie out of it.

So like fantasy football for celebrity gossip?

> Soon we'll be able to make 100% convincing movies without any real celebrities whatsoever.

Being able to mimic particular people is quite different to being able to:

- make the AI act in a compelling way in a new movie (e.g. getting the emotion and delivery right for a particular scene)

- create a compelling actor from scratch.

My point was that we already have bullet point 2.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/30/16569402/ai-generate-fak...

Bullet point 1 probably isn't too far off.

No we don't! Not even close.

That article is about creating fake faces. That's all.

Being able to create a virtual actor that can somehow generate a compelling performance from a script, or which can even be programmed to create a compelling performance, is orders of magnitude more difficult, and far beyond anything we can currently do.

Movies without celebrities have been made for quite some time already.

The person I was replying to was clearly taking about the case of replacing them with AI-created actors.

Sorry, I replied at the wrong point in the thread. I should have replied to him.

Hatsune Miku

I agree and think a real driving force for this will be internationalization. Shoot the movie and then swap the actors for Chinese audiences, etc.

We would just worship the fakes instead.

This reminds me of the culture around Hatsune Miku.

Stop talking about my wife

IIRC the movie The Congress (2013) is about this (before it transitions into a full on acid trip)

looking forward to a demo of this tech where all actors, male and female, are replaced with a single select actor.

the technology can only get better, the question is will disclaimers become part of every video or just the assumption of what you see is always fake?

Bonus points if it's John Malkovich

S1mOne (sp?) is a movie about that. But there will always be TMZ and gossip, they don't rely on celebrities to exist they rely on juicy stories involving anyone.

This is a major plot element of the 2013 film "The Congress". I highly recommend it.

I think this is from the same group.