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Stephen Downes

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"The company behind it, Fable Studios, announced via tweet that it had made public a paper on 'Generative TV & Showrunner Agents.' They embedded a full, fake 'South Park' episode where Cartman tries to apply deepfake technology to the media industry." Maybe it's a bad idea. Or maybe it's a sign of things to come. I don't think you can put this technology back into the bottle, so the question is, how do we make use of it while respecting the rights and well-being or those involved? I know that's not how business usually works, but maybe it's time to rethink that as well. Related, sort of: Metric, Synthetica; Cyndi Lauper at the Budokan, 1986, remastered.

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