Editing Ethically - Resurrecting and Rewriting

I’ve been a fan of this page for some time, enjoying numerous fan edits and reading about the different methods people go about working on this franchise. I myself enjoy pretty much every edition pure, revisited, enhanced you name it. I guess my topic ties into the recent CG character debate regarding resurrecting characters played by deceased actors. While I don’t mind bringing a character back to life through the magic of CG I understand the ethical questions it brings up.

With relation to this topic it now appears the technology for editors to do something akin to what Hollywood already has done may soon be available at home. Both Adobe and Stanford University have released information on some amazing technologies that would not only allow editors to mimic an actors voice but also reenact close facial dialogue.

http://www.graphics.stanford.edu/~niessner/thies2016face.html

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/after-20-minutes-of-listening-new-adobe-tool-can-make-you-say-anything

The technology Face2Face appears to be very limited and is not currently an application that’s being produced commercially at this point in time but the development is promising nonetheless.

Personally I could see some much needed dialogue editing in the prequels using these technologies but it begs the question whether editors would adhere to the same principals as Hollywood or would they take it further? Would anyone actually use this technology in their edits?

Exactly, if this tech fell into the wrong hands, a lot of problems they can create. There has to be a limit to this type of tech.

Actually there is nothing really ethically wrong with the technology there is depending on use and like you say it could be used to frame people.

What is more likely is that Video and Audio evidence are less likely to be considered as a means of evidence on how easy it is to manipulate.

that is more likely than halting advances technology.

This could certainly spell an end to the CCTV cameras everywhere if they can not be submitted as evidence or it makes it lesser evidence. It’s actually pretty sketchy anyway even now and I don’t think anyone can be charged by CCTV alone unless it’s like a traffic or parking or speeding.(Racketeering / fund raising in some cases especially parking and congestion zones)

I think you still need a witness / victim and some sort of complaint to compliment any footage with most crimes at least I think that sounds about right?