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Black Mirror covered re-animation of loved ones via AI & robotics: Be Right Back Black Mirror: Season 2, Episode 1
While obviously it can veer off into the morbid and obscene, anyone remember "dramatic reenactment" labels on true crime TV in the 90s? (maybe before too) But I do think there's a space for communicating with impactful re-enactment and tasteful "redaction" (censor blurs, keeping things off scene, or jumping forward allowing implication to tell the story). As with all laws, and rules, the enforcement story will tell w…
That should be done without appropriating the voice and image of the deceased without permission.
I disagree. If I were in charge, I would encourage factually correct reenactments and ban fake news.
An example is the long time Hollyweird trend of replacing ugly historical figures with beautiful keading people. Bonnie Parker (likely a relative of mine) was not a hottie. Pretending she was distorts the story. Ugly girls who are prodigies live different lives than pretty girls. The current fashion of replacing people of one race with people of another race distorts history. If you want a black leading lady, there are many stories to chose from.
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The discussion, as I understood it, was about contrasting dramatic reenactments using actors with using digital recreations (i.e. "what makes these two techniques different?"). danbruc was talking about how the digital recreation in the news recently was inaccurate. I was questioning if that mattered, since I wasn't so much contrasting paid actors with that specific case but instead with what new technology now allow…
I was specifically replying to the following part. A paid actor may look similar to a victim, but not exactly. Their image will evoke a totally different emotion from the victim's friends and family. In that specific case the digital recreation - if you can even call it that - was quite off and far from depicting what the real victim looked like. It would certainly have been possible to do an reenactment which more c…
or for that matter popular children's fairy tales
Black Mirror covered re-animation of loved ones via AI & robotics: Be Right Back Black Mirror: Season 2, Episode 1
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I was specifically replying to the following part. A paid actor may look similar to a victim, but not exactly. Their image will evoke a totally different emotion from the victim's friends and family. In that specific case the digital recreation - if you can even call it that - was quite off and far from depicting what the real victim looked like. It would certainly have been possible to do an reenactment which more c…
> Putting children into an oven is certainly in the range of things that you could find in horror movies or for that matter popular children's fairy tales
These things happen not only in horror movies. They happen today, in real life.
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> Putting children into an oven is certainly in the range of things that you could find in horror movies or for that matter popular children's fairy tales
I hate to say this, but just three months ago children that I knew were burned alive. And a baby was found burned in an oven, apparently stuffed in there such that the heating element mark was visible on its body. These things happen not only in horror movies. They happen today, in real life.
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I think it's something about recreating a likeness of a victim. A paid actor may look similar to a victim, but not exactly. Their image will evoke a totally different emotion from the victim's friends and family.
What if they are careful to make a fake kid who looks nothing like the original (other than kind of looking like a kid of that age and kind of looking like the same race)? There are dramatic re-enactments. I don't want to see this, but should it be banned? Is it okay if it was done with live actors? What about if they were on "to catch a thief"? What if it was a real drama or a play. What if you wanted to block a sha…
You can make such videos all day long, but you would have to deliver them yourself, which is consistent with how free speech works in America.
In Russia they have passed a law some time ago that you can never post dead children faces in any mass media (so they pixelate or draw over). I was thinking that it is most stupid law, but now I don't. Oh boy how right these lawmakers were in light of this new development.
I think every camera manufacturer should implement auto blur on photos (legislate it). Then an opt-in system unblurs the faces of the people that approve.
(Or just replace the faces with AI random faces instead of blur)
Point being, society has fallen into an opt-out system naturally - But I don't think there is good reason for it to be a necessary thing for the common good. I want privacy, and the tech is there to do it.
Manufacturers are meddling with raw images for proof of non-tampering, and if the horse has bolted there then I want my proposal above folded in at the same level.
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What if they are careful to make a fake kid who looks nothing like the original (other than kind of looking like a kid of that age and kind of looking like the same race)? There are dramatic re-enactments. I don't want to see this, but should it be banned? Is it okay if it was done with live actors? What about if they were on "to catch a thief"? What if it was a real drama or a play. What if you wanted to block a sha…
Well, to be clear, such videos are not “banned,” but merely not within the scope of the coherent speech product YouTube seeks to produce. This is, of course, their right single the platform belongs to them. You can make such videos all day long, but you would have to deliver them yourself, which is consistent with how free speech works in America.
They're "banned" on youtube, which many people would argue is a monopoly. Certainly banning specific types of content on the largest and most popular video platform will have a massive impact on how many people will ever see that kind of content
I don't think it's unreasonable to raise concerns about censorship on platforms that have a disproportionate impact on what most people will or won't see.
Black Mirror covered re-animation of loved ones via AI & robotics: Be Right Back Black Mirror: Season 2, Episode 1
There's also a great Adult Swim Infomercial satirizing this idea, "Live Forever As you Are Now with Alan Resnick"[1]. Apparently it came out the same year as that Black Mirror episode (2013) ! [I] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xg29TuWo0Yo