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.
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Re:Nicolas Cage DeepFake
by robterrell on Saturday January 27, 2018 @11:33AM
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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.
Re:Nicolas Cage DeepFake
by booleandilemma on Saturday January 27, 2018 @11:03AM
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So like fantasy football for celebrity gossip?
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.