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Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Someone help me out please. Who was the 90s sci-fi author who predicted actors would go away and all movies would be made using cgi /ai? She had characters in the book, watching movies starring Humphrey Bogart and John Wayne, as detectives solving crimes (and so on). She also predicted "ractors", people who act in front of a camera, so a computer can use their motion and expressions to animate a character on screen in real time.

My feeble brain, I swear... In any case, thanks to her, knew this day was coming. Gonna be a wild ride though.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

According to Le Chat,

The author you're thinking of is Neal Stephenson, and the book is "Snow Crash" published in 1992. In the book, he coined the term "ractors" for actors who perform in front of motion-capture cameras to create lifelike animations. He also predicted the use of CGI and AI in filmmaking to create movies with long-dead actors.

I haven’t read it and the Wikipedia article doesn’t seem to mention virtual actors, so it could be wrong. At least it didn’t hallucinate a fake book.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://archive.is/ZTU90

The Atlantic | Neal Stephenson’s Most Stunning Prediction

The sci-fi legend coined the term metaverse. But he was most prescient about our AI age. By Matteo Wong

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

William Gibson

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