In the age of deepfakes, could virtual actors put humans out of business?

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In film and video games, we’ve already seen what’s possible with ‘digital humans’. Are we on the brink of the world’s first totally virtual acting star?

When you’re watching a modern blockbuster such as The Avengers, it’s hard to escape the feeling that what you’re seeing is almost entirely computer-generated imagery, from the effects to the sets to fantastical creatures. But if there’s one thing you can rely on to be 100% real, it’s the actors. We might have virtual pop stars like Hatsune Miku, but there has never been a world-famous virtual film star.

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There's a place for then in games.

Thus stage plays will strive.

No

Virtual Princess Leia did not have one microgram of the sparkle thst made Princess Leia special.

Seeing as many of them are already deepfakes by definition, only if they are dead. The only reason to spend money on this technique is to raise the dead, and even then (as in the Carrie Fisher pic) we’re barely scraping it out of the uncanny valley.

Preventing people from earning honest daily income is the biggest business on the planet. Paying folks to beat and kill those who don't work for your employer is scientific.

The day when reality stars are replaced by virtual actors is the day the world has gone mad!!! But the way we idolize these types of people when in many cases they're not the type of people you'd ever want to know goes to show how fickle and stupid people are.

Short answer No

The Congress, 2013

Not a new idea...

It would be good.

Oi I'm working on a story with this as the central idea, keep stumm will ya!

Most Important thing in movies always was a scripts. I'm watching movies not for a actors and actresses.

No.

Depends if you think sex bots are good replacements for fucking humans.

No. Click bait article.

It still looks fake and cartoon like, can't fool the naked eye.

.. No, thats not how a deep fake works... Who are you going to have as the base face map for the AI to put the face onto?

No.

I hope so.

Only if they embarrass themselves.

I thought deepfakes were that AI thing not just any computer imagery of actors.

I hope within reasons

Penis

Don’t care. I only watch the movies. I don’t get paid millions to do so, I need to lay. Long as I enjoy it I don’t care if someone isn’t getting paid millions for it

But... but ... who will instruct us on polical matters

Eventually.

Old news here. intel has been the whole industry's best supporting actor for years now.

Tom Cruise has been doing it for years.

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