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Here are the hot topics of the day:

📰 Breaking news: Hollywood Producers Are Pushing Background Actors to Sell Their Image for Pennies. An In-Depth Analysis of the Actor Guild Strike.

🌹 Nostalgia road: A New Era of Image Restoration

🔧 AI Tools kit: Three AI Avatar Creators That Will Make Videos Pop

🎨 AI exhibit: Bringing back to life Cultural Icons

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📰 Breaking News

Actor guilds are on strike over the push from Hollywood producers to use body scans of background actors

The TL:DR of the issue

This is part of a plan to introduce AI-based extras on movie sets. It would be the beginning of the end for an entire craft.

Producers call their proposal “groundbreaking.” In fact, it would get aspiring actors to sell their image for a day’s worth of work. In the industry, that’s $200 on a good day. There are important moral implications to this:

• Once you sell your image, you no longer own yourself. Studios want full control over the avatars, with no future compensation or a requirement to get consent to use them however they see fit.

• A lot of industry crafts will be lost due to automating background acting. Everyone involved in creating an authentic movie background - costumes, makeup, hair, coordinators - is out of the game.

• If extras give up their rights, this creates precedent and an industry standard. Any entertainer could be expected to be giving up the rights to their digital avatars for a day’s pay.

Our deep dive explores the issue in great detail. We talked to people in the gaming industry, looked into legislation and listened to actors to get the 360 view of it.

Read it here…

🌹 Insight

Nostalgia road. Restoration of old photographs

AIs are having a hard time generating images that are true to brief. You can end up spending up to 100 dollars trying to get the precise image that you want. That’s where prompt engineering comes in.

So far, I’ve personally never got every single aspect of a prompt reflected in the generated image. here is some amount of miscommunication with the AI that feels unavoidable. The community is just now figuring out how the AI wants to be briefed.

This being said, you don’t need to start from scratch. Some of the stuff has already been figured out.

Read the full article…

⚙️ AI avatar-makers

Yes, you can already create clones of humans in the digital realm.

They look stiff, strange, uncanny, beady-eyed. They don’t blink right, their chest doesn’t move where they’re supposed to breathe. But they’re learning and they’re going to get a lot better at expressing emotion.

Animaze

This is a great way to bypass the uncanny valley and have a blast. Instead of striving for realism, it allows you to choose a fun animated character that will replicate your movement and speech. You can build your own avatar or choose from their catalog.

DeepBrain

DeepBrain is a professional AI avatar tool. Pick your journalist-like person and give it your text to read it outloud. DeepBrain makes it easy to integrate the avatars in videos or plug them in with conversational AIs to create virtual assistants.

D-ID

D-ID gives you the option of uploading your own photographs to create talking avatars. There is a great deal of customization when it comes to this tool, including adding your own voice.

📸 AI Exhibition

Bringing the icons back to life

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The exhibition, from left to right: Marilyn Monroe, Heath Ledger, Tupac Shakur, Bruce Lee, Carrie Fisher, Kurt Cobain.