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I can't be the only one who has thought that deep fakes + Cameo = moneymaker! Pitch the celebs "hey you can have 70% of the cameo money, but you don't have to
by finnh 6y ago
I can't be the only one who has thought that deep fakes + Cameo = moneymaker! Pitch the celebs "hey you can have 70% of the cameo money, but you don't have to lower yourself to _actually doing the cameo_". We'll just take the other 30% to pay actors to do it for you.
- black_puppydog 6y agoI see the next wave of copyright suits coming already: > 30-odd geek sued for Billions for infringing on the "Brad Pitt" brand. Interesting times...
- amelius 6y agoSo if I happen to look like Brad Pitt (I don't), then I can't have a role in a movie because of his "brand"?
- dtparr 6y agoYou can't try to imitate him to trick audiences into thinking it's him, no. That's already been a lawsuit (well, not Brad Pitt), and resulted in SAG rules against it. https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/revealed_the_real_life_dr https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/revealed_the_real_life_dr
- mikestew 6y agoThought about it? There was a movie made along those lines: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821641/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821641/
- breck 6y agoThe Prior-Units theorem states that if you can put an idea into words, there exists prior units in proportion to the utility of the idea (so there's an infinity of novel but useless ideas). Is there a variant of this along those lines but in regards to "someone made a movie about this"?
- granularity 6y agoIf you like bad movies, this one manages to be bad on a number of interesting dimensions at the same time. Highly recommended!
- gambiting 6y agoHaving read the book, I'm just amazed anyone could have read it and go "we should make a movie out of this!" And I love all of Lem's writing.
- scarecrowbob 6y agoI watched the movie and had to read the wiki page about the novel to follow it. And I'm a) no longer smoking weed, b) used to teach a history of film class in a lit department at a university, b) also enjoyed Lem when I was reading those works. I enjoyed the film, but it's very difficult to read without at least a glance at a synopsis of the source material.
- hairofadog 6y agoThe movie 'Cam' is actually pretty good, but its concept is that the AI takes 100% and pays the actor 0%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam_(film)
- telesilla 6y agoMore interesting is the book it's loosely based on, where protagonist is split between delusional and real mental states. Stanislav Lem's The Futurological Congress, excellent read.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoI imagine when processing power doubles a few more times that we'll be able to do that in real time. Pick your movie, then pick which actors you want, use your Mii as the next James Bond, etc..
- atdt 6y agohttps://mashable.com/article/damian-lillard-hulu-deepfake-commercial/ https://mashable.com/article/damian-lillard-hulu-deepfake-co...
- minimaxir 6y agoIt would be in Cameo's interest to ban deepfakes preemptively (since devaluing actors, their primary content creators, would not be wise even moreso if they are unionized), and I'm honestly surprised they haven't already.
- mysterEFrank 6y agoI don't think this would take off. Part of the fun of cameo is having celebrities take the time to recognize you.
- crazygringo 6y agoThe thing is, you need to find an actor who can do a perfect impression of your rhythms and mannerisms -- facial, bodily, and vocal. Which is actually incredibly hard. It's easy to do jokingly and exaggeratedly for SNL. But getting it down enough to be believable is a ton of work. Also, celebs LOVE doing cameos. They're not lowering themselves. It's a blast to do. Except in very rare circumstances, celebs aren't doing cameos for the money.