Mary Gillis: Interesting how "respect for the dead" only ever means "don't mention the horrible things powerful people did in their obituaries" and never means "don't dig up dead celebrities and puppeteer their corpses for fun and profit".

Interesting how "respect for the dead" only ever means "don't mention the horrible things powerful people did in their obituaries" and never means "don't dig up dead celebrities and puppeteer their corpses for fun and profit".

Earlier this week, AI company ElevenLabs said it is bringing digitally produced celebrity voice-overs of deceased actors to its newly launched Reader app. The company said the app takes articles, PDF, ePub, newsletters, e-books or any other text on your phone and turns it into voice-overs.

AI resurrects deceased actors’ voices to read audiobooks | CNN Businesscnn.it Actress Judy Garland never recorded her voice to read an audiobook of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but you’ll soon be able to hear her rendition of the children’s novel that inspired the movie nonethel...

It take's Big Tech's hatred of employing human beings to comically absurd levels. "We need to pay people to do something." "Not on my watch! We shall raise the dead!"

Man, leave Judy Garland alone. Her life was hard enough without her afterlife being plagerized.

Ghouls.

Remake by Connie Willis, published in 1995 www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2015/10/29/r...

Remake by Connie Williswww.thefrumiousconsortium.net Most of the rest of Connie Willis’ writing would lead a reader to expect that Remake, her tale of Hollywood endlessly recycling classic movies and classic actors through digital magic, would …

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