A mechanism or tactic · 2024 · AI
The dead celebrity, generated
A voice trained on an archive, a likeness, a song, a speech, an appearance at a festival, all generated. Not a hologram, not a tribute, not a person.
Every parasocial mechanism in this file has an obvious use, and this one is being deployed immediately and without a cooling-off period, mostly for profit and mostly without anyone who loved the person having agreed. The comparison to 1973 is unflattering to both.
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