Jar Jar Bricks said:

Hal 9000 said:

I will point out, however, that onscreen Star Wars has certainly not shied away from heavy use of AI-generated dialogue. So… yeah. On the other hand, I get it, though.

Also worth pointing out that none of this is for-profit. It would be very different if we were profiting off of the AI edits (see the channels on YouTube for blatant examples of this).

Also, it’s not as if this is replacing anybody’s jobs. Either this tool would be used, or we’d have less creative choices for edits.

The real issue with generative AI is that it harms the environment, and AI models are essentially theft in that they’re trained on stolen content; the vast majority of creators and owners didn’t give permission, nor are they credited.

Anjohan said:

CamSMurph said:

Anjohan said:

Update - Destruction of Alderaan

Thanks for the patience.

Here’s a little update, Alderaan:

https://streamable.com/n9ry01

Looks like you’re doing more than modernising the audio and visual look, bro! 👀

In my new line of work, I’ve… been cursed with a lot of new tools. Hehe. But yes - you know me.

You used gen-AI, didn’t you?

Who made the art?

DemasteredDonkey said:

Is it good? I am super intrigued but I have been hearing nothing but negative comments about the movies.

I liked the PG-13-rated cuts, but they cut out a lot of the meat that made the R-rated cuts a more complete experience, even if the latter two cuts aren’t perfect. Just skip the PG-13-rated cuts and go straight to the R-rated cuts.

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.

Jar Jar Bricks said:

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?

This thread is for people to:

• Rewrite the MCU and/or any of its installments as they exist.
• Write original MCU content.
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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.