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Thanks for this answer, really.
You saying about this film having a lot of documentation around the lost 43 minutes made me look into it. I did not know the story behind it, i.e. it being already cut by Welles, then the 43 minutes being cut out by studios, plus a lot of research and reconstruction already being made around it. Adding to that the fact this is not (thus far) a commercial endeavour, it does paint it in a different light. Finally, from what I can gather, it seems the "AI" being used here is more deepfake stuff on live scenes and less full image generation (which is the image that the text conjured for me, this is the problem with catchall marketing terms...)
All that to say, while I personally am not into these kinds of efforts (AI or not, but I appreciate the subjectivity of that sentiment), and have my reservations about using these techs to reanimate long dead artists who don't have a say in the matter, your comment did show that the process, in this particular instance, seems to be very different from what I had initially imagined, so thank you.
Sorry about the downvotes and potentially angry responses you are/will be getting, I did not mean to lay down a trap for you.
Man, I do appreciate the sentiment, but I'm an AI-agnostic guy poking at the Fuck AI community to argue about nuance. You are 100% not to blame for any hate coming my way.
Which is relatively little, for the record, because this is still Fedi and most people here are somewhere between civilized and quite nice.
I genuinely don't have a good idea of what they'll try to do and how. There's certainly been this thing where any machine learning tool at all gets hate now, regardless of whether it's being used to resolve pictures of black holes, restore old movies or... whatever people do with generative AI in their day to day. People are mostly out to have a good ole dogpile because it's a feel-good angle of anticorporate activism you can do at home.
And I get it, I'm just too much of a contrarian to throw babies out with the bathwater when you can have a spirited discussion that leads nowhere instead. Glad it had any positive impact on anybody at all, honestly.