I watched The Lion King (2019) six times, and in-between my fifth and sixth viewings, I kind of believed that the film’s a guilty pleasure (I even watched individual scenes and sequences many times), despite being mediocre, though it had been over three years in-between viewings. My recent sixth viewing, I liked it a lot less.
When one believes in respecting the dead, they tend to believe that the dead are either omniscient or watching us from the grave.
It’s a morally grey area. I believe that so long as you aren’t using it for profit or in a distasteful way, it’s permissible. In other words, as long as it’s something being done out of passion for an intellectual property, there’s really no harm in it. But I can’t blame somebody for being uncomfortable about it. I just don’t think that somebody else’s discomfort gives them the right to pass a judgment about the topic for everybody as a whole. It’s a personal thing because of how grey it is.
Maybe one day there will be laws passed about this. But those are never retroactive. For now, it’s the wild west, and it’s up to the people to make sure they’re using these tools in respectful way.
It’s more about respecting the dead who haven’t consented to audio of their voice(s) being used to generate new audio of them speaking.
Has anyone already discussed the ethics of using audio of a deceased person’s voice to generate new audio?
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For those unaware, Rebel Moon is a sci-fi/fantasy IP created by Zack Snyder and owned by Netflix that begun with Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire, the first of a two-parter film that released on December 22, 2023. The film was followed by Part Two — The Scargiver on April 19, 2024, while the franchise expanded since the first film’s release with novelizations, comic books, a narrative podcast and a for-adults director’s cut for each of the two-parter films.
This thread is for general discussion of the franchise and/or any of its installments, though it is rated NSFW/18+, as installments (namely the films’ director’s cuts) are for adults and contain adult content.