Fuck AI

Last year I saw a stage play about Gene Wilder. The actor playing Wilder, Jonathan Randell Silver, bore a passing visual resemblance to him, helped along by a good hair and makeup job, but also sounded and behaved very like him. Silver had obviously studied Wilder's mannerisms and choices, both in Wilder's iconic roles and in Wilder's own persona from interviews and such, and Silver's performance in the play really evoked Wilder on a very effective level whether it was recreating some of Wilder's famous comedy bits and characters or portraying the real Wilder behind the scenes. This was an actor who understood the role, and used real human choices and talent to create his performance.

There are countless talented actors and impressionists who could have recreated Wilder's Wonka on a human level and given a genuine performance with a real soul behind it. The use of low-effort AI slop instead was a deliberate choice here, and it falls to the viewing public to accept this or not.

Also, this is a fucking game show. They are digitally defiling a beloved corpse for a fucking game show.

This is not a surprise, his widow has been profiting off of him from the moment he died. Within a year of his death, I started seeing lottery scratch tickets with his face scattered across the ground outside gas stations.

This is like living through IRL horror movie. How awful. Gene Wilder is unironically my favorite actor of all time. The fact that his wife of all people is ok with this shows how out of touch people are with reality. We're literally doing anything to escape at this point. This madness needs to stop.

I thought we were boiling the ocean to cure cancer.

You stole my identity... You lose! You get NOTHING! GOOD DAY, SIR!

If you read the article his wife did.

Translated: she wants more money.

"But sir, the cow is dead." "Shaddup! There's still milk inside there somewhere. Keep looking!!!".

I don't believe in boycotts working. Boycott this anyway.

Or better yet if someone you know wants to watch it pirate it and give them a copy.

https://harrisonestatelaw.com/celebrity-estate-lesson-gene-wilder/

He didn't just leave her a lump sum, it was only 20m in total. Split amongst the family, probably all used to living the high life. It's reasonably possible that they've spent through what they had and it's this or reduce lifestyle

Every time I've seen a movie with some "resurrected" actor, without exception, I am revolted and totally removed from the film.

Will someone else in the role fall short of the original? Probably... but that's because the original is dead. Let them rest in peace, and allow all of the living to enjoy their works before we follow them.

Do other people appreciate these computer revenants? Wouldn't someone who's never seen the original also be removed from the film by a CGI "actor" amongst all of the meatballs?

In this case, are voice actors that hard to find? We can't find anyone who sounds somewhat like Gene Wilder?

Re wife/family approval... get a job. Maybe as a voice actor, I've heard we are short of them.

Old man yelling at clouds out

I remember my wife getting me to watch that starballs movie where the grand moppet character or whatever was some vile CGI rigged corpse.

I felt viceral disgust and a portent of the future. Fuck me for thinking that it should mean something that someone lived and died, and that things should end and decay so new things can take their place.

To be fair ... Gene Wilder did write and star in a movie about bringing back the dead.

Oh, and I'm firmly on the "schtien" (not "schtine") side of the debate.

Spinning in his grave

Yet another movie I won't be either paying a cent to watch, or even pirating.

How do I proxy a downvote into reality?

The announcement came on the 55th anniversary of the 1971 feature’s premiere, the latest synergistic effort by ElevenLabs. Last week, it released an “Odyssey” audiobook featuring an AI-recreated Michael Caine ahead of Christopher Nolan’s feature adaptation, and it debuted a version of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” read by an AI Garland ahead of “Wicked: For Good” last year.

That tells you everything you need to know about the company. First thing you drop to make you faster when chasing money is morals.