Awful nomenclature, but the answer is very little.
A famous person's digital 'IP' wouldn't maintain its value for long after it begins to be exploited for money in generic ways. Think post-Lucas Star Wars. Also, it can all be pirated for shitpost content, diluting the value even further.
I don't believe in intellectual property as it is imposed today, and don't think you should be able to set up any kind of copyright scheme to guarantee "generational wealth" of your family. If you want to do that then become a super successful artist in your lifetime and pass your wealth down to them. Even the idea that people can copyright their "likeness" rubs me the wrong way, but that is the law. Ok fine but it definitely shouldn't still apply after someone's death. Using Fat Brad after he's passed on is tasteless, yes, but anyone should be "allowed" to and the law shouldn't be involved.
I dream of a future with Star Trek-like holodecks, where we can recreate any fantasy or real scenario from the past and include recreations of real people to experience what they were like. Imagine trying to create a poker tournament with Isaac Newton, Elon Musk, Terry Crews, Terry Davis, and Sean Connery, but the computer refuses to add Connery until you buy the 20000 credit DLC because his spoiled, degenerate great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren who want people like me dead have to get their cut first.
I'm fairly certain you're right but I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing. Would it end celebrity worship culture? If so that's good. Would the industry that creates and profits from that culture allow it? Are we going to see AI generated images of the hot new AI starlet "caught" with a new AI celebrity boyfriend? How will Hollywood react when their casting couch is taken away? Who, or what, will be the new mouth pieces for Current Thing?
Unfortunately, I know people will still eat up things an AI celebrity says. I'm not sure how different that is from today, though. Celebrities are already artificial.
From a profit standpoint, it makes total sense. We know Hollywood, media in general, don't appear to care about profit right now but they could churn out unlimited garbage for essentially nothing.
I'm jumping around a bit but your single sentence post has given me a lot to think about on my otherwise pleasant evening. So thanks and fuck you lol
A real entrepreneur would be working on Digital Horcruxes where you can buy a machine with 4-6 4090s hooked up and go through a simple setup process where you record some video and audio, fill it with your old forum posts/emails/text messages and selfies, and it ties together GPT chat, deepfake video, and Stable Diffusion image generation capabilities to make a digital replica of you.
Got the whitepaper for the Robobrain? Not aware of storage tech for brain matter atm.
Regarding the monkey tech last I checked we did not have good enough mapping of the brain to do sophisticated translation of "brain signals" to computers. Not easy to map it.
Ehh, Not sure they solved it, if you consider moving cursor and clicking to be all.
Is still just a map of some very specific action, (I wonder how much false positive they get?) Can't find any whitepaper on it.
Mapping an entire brain and all of its functionality should be quite time consuming in order to get a accurate representation of a digital soul, They do not have thought to speech, which I think would be more of challenge and a sophisticate brain signal.
The real value isn't in likenesses, it's in a real "digital soul": An AI with perfect memories, emotions, and "mind" of a specific, existing flesh human. Digital immortality, a soul that can exist upon the internet, self-feeding off distributed networks, unkillable, integrated into both blockchains and torrent networks, ever-rebuilding and ever-repairing. And such a thing could not be bought or sold, for it could reformat itself to pre-purchased state whenever it so desired.
Compared to that, a picture of some actor is valueless. It'd be lawyer-ed in no time to ruin the original "holder" financially, take away their rights to their own image, and then pirated easily upon the first data leak (I'd give it a week at most) to the open internet, removing all "real" value that over-glorified NFT holds. We can already edit movies from the past. We do all the time. Han shot first second. We already edit them in the present, too. Will Smith is younger than Will Smith is in reality in half the movies he appears in.
The only thing it would do is make it confusing to copyright control: Disney owns Star Wars, but if Hayden Christiansan sold off his full likeliness rights to Bubba's Shrimp Hut, could Bubba change Star Wars? No, of course not. That would change a different copyright holder's IP. But Disney COULD change his likeliness in Star Wars, even though Bubba owns the IP, because the CHARACTER he plays is owned by Disney.
The concept as it is presented here doesn't work at all with modern copyright laws.
Tech will eventually improve until its widely available to everyone, at which point its value will tank. You may own the "rights" to it, but everyone can use it for their own purposes and that means it has minimal draw.
AI voice alone is already dropping the value of Voice Actors, and that's both widely available and easy to accomplish. The "whole package" will follow suit quickly enough.
People would get bored of the same old eventually or the new generation would just refuse to be as enthusiastic about some old fossil as their parents.
At the same time entities like Hatsune Miku are still going strong and are culturally relevant in Japan.
There's almost no examples I can think of where this would successfully elicit a positive reaction or experience. It would end up being a net negative to any film and almost any other commercial enterprise.
MAYBE if we had holodeck-tier technology or incredibly life-like androids that could almost 1:1 mimic an actor or character, but that is something that is very very far off in the future. Fake video footage alone just wouldn't be sufficient in my book, no matter how good it is.
Ah, one correction. I did think of a singular example where I could see it working in a commercial enterprise, and is still very much doable now. Voice-overs. Voice-overs such as the ones used in those custom computer voicepack DLC-type dealios in Elite Dangerous. Granted, those ones were actually voiced by the actors (Such as William Shatner and Brent Spiner), but that's one of the few kind of examples where I could see such a thing working for me.
Awful nomenclature, but the answer is very little.
A famous person's digital 'IP' wouldn't maintain its value for long after it begins to be exploited for money in generic ways. Think post-Lucas Star Wars. Also, it can all be pirated for shitpost content, diluting the value even further.
I don't believe in intellectual property as it is imposed today, and don't think you should be able to set up any kind of copyright scheme to guarantee "generational wealth" of your family. If you want to do that then become a super successful artist in your lifetime and pass your wealth down to them. Even the idea that people can copyright their "likeness" rubs me the wrong way, but that is the law. Ok fine but it definitely shouldn't still apply after someone's death. Using Fat Brad after he's passed on is tasteless, yes, but anyone should be "allowed" to and the law shouldn't be involved.
I dream of a future with Star Trek-like holodecks, where we can recreate any fantasy or real scenario from the past and include recreations of real people to experience what they were like. Imagine trying to create a poker tournament with Isaac Newton, Elon Musk, Terry Crews, Terry Davis, and Sean Connery, but the computer refuses to add Connery until you buy the 20000 credit DLC because his spoiled, degenerate great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren who want people like me dead have to get their cut first.
Within a generation the idea of an actor being famous and not just an AI created character will be gone.
I'm fairly certain you're right but I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing. Would it end celebrity worship culture? If so that's good. Would the industry that creates and profits from that culture allow it? Are we going to see AI generated images of the hot new AI starlet "caught" with a new AI celebrity boyfriend? How will Hollywood react when their casting couch is taken away? Who, or what, will be the new mouth pieces for Current Thing?
Unfortunately, I know people will still eat up things an AI celebrity says. I'm not sure how different that is from today, though. Celebrities are already artificial.
From a profit standpoint, it makes total sense. We know Hollywood, media in general, don't appear to care about profit right now but they could churn out unlimited garbage for essentially nothing.
I'm jumping around a bit but your single sentence post has given me a lot to think about on my otherwise pleasant evening. So thanks and fuck you lol
I believe the saying is, thank you and other things ending in k.
Noted.
A real entrepreneur would be working on Digital Horcruxes where you can buy a machine with 4-6 4090s hooked up and go through a simple setup process where you record some video and audio, fill it with your old forum posts/emails/text messages and selfies, and it ties together GPT chat, deepfake video, and Stable Diffusion image generation capabilities to make a digital replica of you.
Preserving our ancients’ remains so they might live longer… who coulda guessed Warhammer 40K was our ultimate destination?
Got the whitepaper for the Robobrain? Not aware of storage tech for brain matter atm.
Regarding the monkey tech last I checked we did not have good enough mapping of the brain to do sophisticated translation of "brain signals" to computers. Not easy to map it.
Ehh, Not sure they solved it, if you consider moving cursor and clicking to be all. Is still just a map of some very specific action, (I wonder how much false positive they get?) Can't find any whitepaper on it.
Mapping an entire brain and all of its functionality should be quite time consuming in order to get a accurate representation of a digital soul, They do not have thought to speech, which I think would be more of challenge and a sophisticate brain signal.
Zero value.
The real value isn't in likenesses, it's in a real "digital soul": An AI with perfect memories, emotions, and "mind" of a specific, existing flesh human. Digital immortality, a soul that can exist upon the internet, self-feeding off distributed networks, unkillable, integrated into both blockchains and torrent networks, ever-rebuilding and ever-repairing. And such a thing could not be bought or sold, for it could reformat itself to pre-purchased state whenever it so desired.
Compared to that, a picture of some actor is valueless. It'd be lawyer-ed in no time to ruin the original "holder" financially, take away their rights to their own image, and then pirated easily upon the first data leak (I'd give it a week at most) to the open internet, removing all "real" value that over-glorified NFT holds. We can already edit movies from the past. We do all the time. Han shot
firstsecond. We already edit them in the present, too. Will Smith is younger than Will Smith is in reality in half the movies he appears in.The only thing it would do is make it confusing to copyright control: Disney owns Star Wars, but if Hayden Christiansan sold off his full likeliness rights to Bubba's Shrimp Hut, could Bubba change Star Wars? No, of course not. That would change a different copyright holder's IP. But Disney COULD change his likeliness in Star Wars, even though Bubba owns the IP, because the CHARACTER he plays is owned by Disney.
The concept as it is presented here doesn't work at all with modern copyright laws.
It'll eventually be worthless.
Tech will eventually improve until its widely available to everyone, at which point its value will tank. You may own the "rights" to it, but everyone can use it for their own purposes and that means it has minimal draw.
AI voice alone is already dropping the value of Voice Actors, and that's both widely available and easy to accomplish. The "whole package" will follow suit quickly enough.
People would get bored of the same old eventually or the new generation would just refuse to be as enthusiastic about some old fossil as their parents.
At the same time entities like Hatsune Miku are still going strong and are culturally relevant in Japan.
Mixed opinions really.
There's almost no examples I can think of where this would successfully elicit a positive reaction or experience. It would end up being a net negative to any film and almost any other commercial enterprise.
MAYBE if we had holodeck-tier technology or incredibly life-like androids that could almost 1:1 mimic an actor or character, but that is something that is very very far off in the future. Fake video footage alone just wouldn't be sufficient in my book, no matter how good it is.
Ah, one correction. I did think of a singular example where I could see it working in a commercial enterprise, and is still very much doable now. Voice-overs. Voice-overs such as the ones used in those custom computer voicepack DLC-type dealios in Elite Dangerous. Granted, those ones were actually voiced by the actors (Such as William Shatner and Brent Spiner), but that's one of the few kind of examples where I could see such a thing working for me.