Soon we'll be able to make 100% convincing movies without any real celebrities whatsoever. Imagine a world of no celebrities. No TMZ. No gossip columns. No infotainmant on the news. No faux outrage scandals.
sniff its beautiful isn't it.
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.
"Like a gossip magazine about non-existent people"
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.
Being able to mimic particular people is quite different to being able to:
- make the AI act in a compelling way in a new movie (e.g. getting the emotion and delivery right for a particular scene)
- create a compelling actor from scratch.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/30/16569402/ai-generate-fak...
Bullet point 1 probably isn't too far off.
That article is about creating fake faces. That's all.
Being able to create a virtual actor that can somehow generate a compelling performance from a script, or which can even be programmed to create a compelling performance, is orders of magnitude more difficult, and far beyond anything we can currently do.
the technology can only get better, the question is will disclaimers become part of every video or just the assumption of what you see is always fake?