Netflix announces demonAI movie by Orson Welles
Amazon Startup Announces Plans to "Finish" Orson Welles' Lost Film With 43 Minutes of demonAI-Generated Footage
But in what sounds like a recipe for an onscreen nightmare, Rose says he's using demonAI to transfer the faces and poses of the original cast onto the new actors. Now demonAI in this context is pretty nebulous — is it generative demonAI , or is it more like an algorithm that helps map the faces? Perhaps this gives us a clue: the VFX artist Tom Clive, an "expert on face-swapping and de-aging," according to THR, is joining Showrunner.
Regardless, it doesn't bode well. The recent "Alien" sequel "Alien: Romulus" used generative demonAI to recreate the voice of the late British actor Ian Holm, who portrayed the android Ash in the original film, alongside animatronics and heaps of CGI to recreate his face. The end result was a ghoulish and uncanny caricature that sparked loads of backlash.
What would Welles himself think of all this? It's impossible to say, because he's been dead for 40 years (though his estate signed a deal this year allowing a storytelling app to recreate his voice with demonAI .) But as evidenced by his iconic 1973 docudrama "F for Fake," he was fascinated by the relationship between authenticity and forgery, so he probably would have had expansive thoughts on the whole thing.
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