Favorite Actors, Virtual Roles
/imagine: very realistic photo real portrait of Morgan Freeman as a 17th Century rogue pirate in ornate elaborate regal clothing fashion on the deck of a pirate ship in an Italian port with exquisite details no beard taken with a DSLR, 8k --v 5.1
This is something more common within the MidJourney community. The depiction of a living actor but in a new and unfamiliar setting. This is a simple pun I generated on the idea of ‘Captain Morgan’ with some degree of believability in the results. Not quite the realism of a DeepFake though, as we see with Morgan Freeman here:
/imagine: very realistic photo real portrait of Morgan Freeman as a 17th Century rogue pirate in ornate elaborate regal clothing fashion on the deck of a pirate ship in an Italian port with exquisite details no beard taken with a DSLR, 8k --v 5.1
/imagine: very realistic photo real portrait of Chris Hemsworth as a 17th Century French prince in ornate elaborate regal clothing fashion with exquisite details taken with a DSLR, 8k --v 5.1
These Chris Hemsworth variants are really just illustrations of lever adjustment in the prompt, but it allows us to understand what the model has been trained on, and where it begins to fall short in some of its data. It doesn’t work for all actors, but for more contemporaneous or well-known celebrities, it’s highly effective. This is a good illustration of Tegmark’s notion of being able to create infinite variants on infinite stories to personalize (and weaponize) attention. If Prometheus (Tegmark’s AI) understands that the user loves the Thor movies, but also loves stories about Versailles or the author Jane Austen, it can mash these themes together to create something similar to what you’d see here, with accompanying script.
But just because we can create these, should we? Would there be an audience for something like this? I suspect there would, but it’s highly dependent upon the permissions of those whose likeness is being rendered. We already do this to some extent in existing animated movies, and especially in video games (see: Death Stranding, The Last of Us, Until Dawn), but there’s some kind of digital Rubicon which gets crossed when this gets used as a movie. Why is that?
/imagine: very realistic photo real portrait of Chris Hemsworth as a 17th Century French prince in ornate elaborate regal clothing fashion with exquisite details taken with a DSLR, 8k --v 5.1
