Benjamin Dreyer: And by everyone, yes, I mean *everyone.* Including her.

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

I remember seeing this when it won some competition and thinking it was pretty in that grandiose operatic Frank Frazetta–ish style I tend to like, but that's been about it.

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

Whomst?

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