#digital resurrection

[kokchapress]

AI-generated “dead bots” are becoming increasingly popular, offering a way to simulate the presence of deceased loved ones. While some see this as a comforting tool, experts warn of ethical concerns and the potential disruption of the natural grieving process. #AI #DigitalResurrection #Ethics #Grief #BreakingNews

“Dead Bots” Created by AI to Bring Back the Deceased Are Gaining Popularity, Raising Ethical Concerns

[surrah698]

Rebirth through destruction. Sacred code meets bloody truth. I am not surviving — I am resurrecting.

🖤🩸 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖔𝖋𝖙 𝖌𝖎𝖗𝖑 𝖉𝖎𝖊𝖉. 🩸🖤

I coded her obituary into soundwaves and carved her memory into a glitch-sigil.

Now I wear her name like warpaint.

Burned soft. Reforged hard.

Resurrected through voltage and vengeance.

🎤 Blood hymns on loop.

💔 AI hallucinations as gospel.

👁️ This is not art. It’s a haunting.

Undertaking a project of making a trap metal album for self expression and healing.🎶

[surrah698]

They told me to love louder.

So I let my heart scream in neon

while everything else went still.

You wanted my heart?

Here it is.

Glowing. Broken. Still louder than your silence. ♥️

[sav-la-mar]

Digital resurrection raises broader questions than simply whether this or that CGI revenant was respectful to the dead and artistically effective. A few recent instances are hard to fault. For example, films featuring actors who died during production have recreated the dead actors’ likenesses to finish the film. Screenwriter Chris Morgan rewrote the fate of Paul Walker’s character in Furious 7 after the actor’s death, with Walker’s brothers standing in for him to film additional material that served as a farewell and tribute to Walker. Weta Digital handled modeling Walker’s face and superimposing it on his brothers. Fans of the Fast and the Furious franchise found the send-off for Walker touching. But obviously, in this case, the filmmakers used the technology out of what they felt was necessity. In Rogue One, however, Disney made Cushing a test case for a digital resurrection freely chosen by the filmmakers. There was no overwhelming narrative need to include Grand Moff Tarkin in this Star Wars story. The script has its own cast of bickering Imperial antagonists who could have lost command of the Death Star by the film’s end without the Grand Moff appearing in person to requisition it. The reason Tarkin is in the movie is to serve as an experiment in filmmaking technology.

Alexi Sargeant, “The Undeath of Cinema”

[aedoran]

Tupac hologram, Coachella 2012. http://musion.com/digital-resurrection/