drave
09-30-2022, 09:00 AM
Bruce Willis has sold the "rights" to his likeness to be used as a deepfake for media.
This is huge. I can 100% see a ton of actors going this route, especially as they age. I know Hollyweird has always had ways of creating their own deepfakes with camera tricks, but this is entirely different.
You may still be seeing today's movie stars in movies our grandchildren will be watching for the first time.
In a way, this gets into immortality and ethical areas for some folks. Once we can figure out how to save//manipulate consciousness (which may never happen) - then we have achieved a bastardized version of immortality.
Action movie legend Bruce Willis has just become the first Hollywood actor to sell his rights to the possibility of a "digital twin" to the US firm Deepcake (https://deepcake.io/), according to The Telegraph (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/09/28/deepfake-tech-allows-bruce-willis-return-screen-without-ever/). With the use of deepfake technology, Willis has offered his likeness to be used onscreen for future projects, following his first experience with the digital media manipulation in a commercial for Russian phone service, MegaFon, last year.
Deepfake technology allows for the use of a person's likeness to be superimposed over another individual. Through the use of machine learning and AI, it's possible to create a visual and audio "twin" of someone in videos. Though the ability to recreate someone so nearly-flawlessly does raise a few ethical questions, the technology has already been utilized within the Star Wars (https://collider.com/tag/star-wars/) universe with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (https://collider.com/tag/rogue-one/), as well as The Mandalorian (https://collider.com/tag/the-mandalorian/) Season 2. In 2021, Willis gave permission to Deepcake in order to appear in a commercial, allowing his face to be "digitally transplanted onto another performer." Now, the actor has officially sold the rights to his likeness to be essentially "hired" by Deepcake for future productions.
This is huge. I can 100% see a ton of actors going this route, especially as they age. I know Hollyweird has always had ways of creating their own deepfakes with camera tricks, but this is entirely different.
You may still be seeing today's movie stars in movies our grandchildren will be watching for the first time.
In a way, this gets into immortality and ethical areas for some folks. Once we can figure out how to save//manipulate consciousness (which may never happen) - then we have achieved a bastardized version of immortality.
Action movie legend Bruce Willis has just become the first Hollywood actor to sell his rights to the possibility of a "digital twin" to the US firm Deepcake (https://deepcake.io/), according to The Telegraph (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/09/28/deepfake-tech-allows-bruce-willis-return-screen-without-ever/). With the use of deepfake technology, Willis has offered his likeness to be used onscreen for future projects, following his first experience with the digital media manipulation in a commercial for Russian phone service, MegaFon, last year.
Deepfake technology allows for the use of a person's likeness to be superimposed over another individual. Through the use of machine learning and AI, it's possible to create a visual and audio "twin" of someone in videos. Though the ability to recreate someone so nearly-flawlessly does raise a few ethical questions, the technology has already been utilized within the Star Wars (https://collider.com/tag/star-wars/) universe with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (https://collider.com/tag/rogue-one/), as well as The Mandalorian (https://collider.com/tag/the-mandalorian/) Season 2. In 2021, Willis gave permission to Deepcake in order to appear in a commercial, allowing his face to be "digitally transplanted onto another performer." Now, the actor has officially sold the rights to his likeness to be essentially "hired" by Deepcake for future productions.