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You still need people who can act. Someone has to make the characters act, and you don't want it to suck, so somebody needs to be skilled at acting, even if the

You still need people who can act. Someone has to make the characters act, and you don't want it to suck, so somebody needs to be skilled at acting, even if they don't end up doing the physical acting. But more to the point, there is no need for constant deepfakes. You can just get regular people to act in your movie. Some movies might need deepfakes for the same reason that animes are really popular. But there's plenty of movies that would not benefit from deepfakes at all.

gitfan86 5y ago
Similarly we still have accountants even though Excel and TurboTax can do all the calculations. I can't help but think this effects the demand for models more than actors. Why spend money on hiring a model who has spent enormous amounts of time looking good shirtless or in a bikini when an average looking person can have a filter applied?
- oneoff786 5y ago
  We have a lot fewer accountants than we did before however (per company)
ivarv 5y ago
I suspect that acting itself will be reduced to algorithms. Expression of different emotions could be digitized. This could open further avenues of automation - authors could configure various different permutations (e.g. sincerity/sarcasm, surprise), the combination of expressions could be derived from context / sentiment analysis for the character, or perhaps each character could have a preset pack of opinions/values that informs their response. Given the constantly expanding capabilities of synthesis, these seem like natural areas that people will explore. I agree that there is no need for any of this, but that's never stopped technological / artistic progress.
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- SketchySeaBeast 5y ago
  That seems to largely be taking the character out of characters. I think this maybe another case of "computer geeks think that {industry name} is easy and can be solved with computers".
  - tetsusaiga 5y ago
    Yes it feels a bit reductionist... "Love is merely a series of chemical reactions, therefore I should be able to compute text that elicits these reactions in a person and makes them fall in love with me."

gitfan86 5y ago

Similarly we still have accountants even though Excel and TurboTax can do all the calculations. I can't help but think this effects the demand for models more than actors. Why spend money on hiring a model who has spent enormous amounts of time looking good shirtless or in a bikini when an average looking person can have a filter applied?

oneoff786 5y ago
We have a lot fewer accountants than we did before however (per company)

ivarv 5y ago

I suspect that acting itself will be reduced to algorithms. Expression of different emotions could be digitized. This could open further avenues of automation - authors could configure various different permutations (e.g. sincerity/sarcasm, surprise), the combination of expressions could be derived from context / sentiment analysis for the character, or perhaps each character could have a preset pack of opinions/values that informs their response. Given the constantly expanding capabilities of synthesis, these seem like natural areas that people will explore. I agree that there is no need for any of this, but that's never stopped technological / artistic progress.

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SketchySeaBeast 5y ago
That seems to largely be taking the character out of characters. I think this maybe another case of "computer geeks think that {industry name} is easy and can be solved with computers".
- tetsusaiga 5y ago
  Yes it feels a bit reductionist... "Love is merely a series of chemical reactions, therefore I should be able to compute text that elicits these reactions in a person and makes them fall in love with me."