Benjamin Dreyer: I think that this is revolting, and I think that everyone involved ought to be ashamed of themselves.

I think that this is revolting, and I think that everyone involved ought to be ashamed of themselves.

AI Firm ElevenLabs Sets Audio Reader Pact With Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds and Laurence Olivier Estatesvariety.com The estates of Judy Garland, James Dean and more have set an AI audio deal with ElevenLabs for its Reader App that converts digital text to voiceover.

And by everyone, yes, I mean *everyone.* Including her.

(I choose to believe that Baroness Olivier knows nothing about this.)

She’s 94 and not in the best of health, but the kids have no excuse.

"It will bring my mother's voice to a new generation!" "Unlike, for example, her movies and recordings?"

Especially her

✊🏻

If AI wants to take the extant print, the shooting script, and all those production stills and then give me all nine hours of Greed, I’ll be okay with that.

I’m willing to change my stance on AI if anything remotely interesting is ever done with it. Not holding my breath though.

i will say that I think the stuff they're doing with proteins seems very interesting - but not a fan of almost anything I've seen in the art/culture/lit AI space

Not looking forward to the aural equivalent of hands with seven fingers but with Judy’s voice.

Whomst?

Ugh.

Oh my goodness.

Oh, ewww. Just no.

For a much less evil use of digital wizardry, look what Summer Santa brought you. "How can we call ourselves civilized when we see that sex jealousy has the power to awaken in us the primitive passions of the savage?" July 9th !!

I had not expected the zombie problem to take this form, but it is indeed a horror.

Just because you can do something, etc.

Ugh! This is gross. Is nothing more important than money?

oh NO

Shit.

welp. whats wrong w using sir anthony hopkins for olivier? it was good enough for the spartacus restoration.

Yes, this is awful. I thought Natalie Cole resurrecting her father to sing with him was bad. I think people may want to add another few clauses to their wills, to help stop this immoral behaviour from happening in future.

Yikes! No.

This is disgusting.

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