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jordanab | 4 years ago

Give it another decade or so, and I can see Lucasfilm/Disney making full feature films starring only deepfake 'clones' of the original trilogy characters in their younger/O.T. forms.

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bick_nyers|4 years ago

The implications for the entertainment industry are massive.

When I was working in indie game development, I wondered if you could use deepfakes as a voice actor. Basically get someone famous/good voice with infinite voice lines, without having to pay for studio time. Obviously, you would need them to sign-off on using their voice for commercial purposes.

wishinghand|4 years ago

There's a post on Hacker News for this, by a company called Sonantic.

chronogram|4 years ago

How would you get the acting part of the voice acting right? I can’t imagine you wouldn’t still need a skilled voice actor for that.

echelon|4 years ago

I'm working on https://vo.codes

The new version is almost ready to launch.

I've also got voice to voice conversion working, and I'm trying to make it real time. It's pretty close.

stevesearer|4 years ago

I met someone a few years back who apparently worked in the field of ‘digital persona management’ which is basically an agent for actors’ likeness after they die. It sounded like families and estates were very interested in the concept as long dead actors could potentially become movie stars again in theory.

Ashanmaril|4 years ago

That sounds like a fairly big ethical dilemma that Disney will happily ignore if making a puppet show out of people's corpses earns them a few extra bucks

frankfrankfrank|4 years ago

I suspect it will also lead to essentially "real" fantasy characters that totally replace real human actors. We already have many comic/drawn characters that people associate and identify with in a similar way they associate and identify with human actors; there is no reason why you would not be presented with "actors that don't actually exist in person. I cannot recall what it was called, but the industry has already produced a fully CGI movie that tried to push this very thing by essentially making a real like manga movie.

kickscondor|4 years ago

See the Harrison Ford vid linked at the end of the original article. Billy Dee Williams also gets inserted. There’s no doubt that this technique will defeat CGI Youngface.

echelon|4 years ago

Other way around. Real actors' likenesses won't be used as often.

That's a good thing. More actors can now work.