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Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200 (www.theregister.com)
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Union prez Fran Drescher thinks Hollywood’s digital desires have no style or flair

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This is beyond stupid. The cost it would take to create and model enough data to properly recreate an deep learning extra is WELL beyond what it would be to just use an off the shelf VFX created one. They have been using them since the matrix and the technology was well advanced since then.