Lucasfilm Hires 'The Mandalorian' YouTuber Who Deepfaked Season 2 Luke Cameo

 https://collider.com/the-mandalorian-lucasfilm-hire-youtuber-luke-cameo

CGI if done correctly and wisely, can really enhance a production.

This tech could add much more depth to the Star+Wars universe in some interesting ways.

https://www.indiewire.com/2021/07/lucasfilm-hires-deepfake-youtuber-mandalorian-skywalker-vfx-1234653720/

Harrison+Ford in Solo: A Star Wars Story [DeepFake] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC3uH4Xw4Xo , https://www.youtube.com/c/Shamook/videos

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/05/harrison-ford-solo-reaction-star-wars-alden-ehrenreich-rave-1201967240 (Alden Ehrenreich was good in Solo but some people really like the option to have a younger version of HF in the movie.) https://www.indiewire.com/2018/02/solo-harrison-ford-advice-alden-ehrenreich-star-wars-1201926113 

The tech has advanced well enough but only deepfake bootleg movies would be possible. That's because the owners of the various productions can't legally allow bootleg versions. However someday, if the owners provided their own deepfake productions, that would be quite something. https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-wars-deepfake-luke-skywalker-mandalorian 

https://www.thewrap.com/lucasfilms-ilm-hires-youtuber-who-improved-cgi-luke-in-the-mandalorian

Deepfake software, which can make anyone look like anyone else, could lead to some hefty ramifications, especially in political and journalistic arenas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY0UpiEyNVw KING 5 News

Deepfake technology will make you question what's real | CNBC Reports https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKU2EZQvK1c

It’s Getting Harder to Spot a Deep Fake Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLoI9hAX9dw , https://www.youtube.com/BloombergTV/videos

Deepfakes - Real Consequences https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMF2i3A9Lzw , https://www.youtube.com/c/ColdFusion/videos

Mark Hamill shares his memories of working on the original Star Wars and does a perfect impression of Harrison Ford. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onMm0DLg8CE , https://www.youtube.com/c/LateNightSeth/videos

https://www.starwars.com/news/tag/george-lucas

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Deepfakes

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=STAR+WARS

The Deepfake threats to companies and people

 https://kpmg.com/xx/en/our-insights/risk-and-regulation/deepfake-threats.html 

Deepfake technology just keeps on growing in usage.

https://www.fortinet.com/resources/cyberglossary/deepfake

https://uit.stanford.edu/news/dangers-deepfake-what-watch 

https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/blog/2024/06/25/ai-deepfake-security-concerns 

https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/technology/practice-innovations-deepfakes/

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/artificial-intelligence-deepfakes-and-the-uncertain-future-of-truth 

The character Ernst_Stavro_Blofeld has been depicted by various actors. 

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/01/deepfakes-different-threat-than-expected/ 

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/05/why-we-need-to-look-beyond-deepfakes-to-benefit-from-synthetic-content-technology 

Of course deepfakes can be used to make some people look like James_Bond_movie villains. 

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/james-bond-villains-ranked-worst-to-best 

However, some people just happen to have a certain look about them. No digital alterations required. 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Klaus_Schwab_-_World_Economic_Forum_on_Africa_2008.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/68/Donald_Pleasence_as_Ernst_Stavro_Blofeld%2C_%27%27You_Only_Live_Twice%27%27.jpg

https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/who-is-peter-brabeck-letmathe-successor-of-klaus-schwab-to-lead-the-world-economic-forum/3823396/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Schwab , https://www.nestle.com/sites/default/files/asset-library/publishingimages/media/news-feed/2014-july/pbl-illustre-feed.jpg 

https://www.slashfilm.com/588506/the-greatest-james-bond-villains-ever

https://enterthereelworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/screen-shot-2022-12-11-at-2.06.55-pm.png

https://www.facebook.com/bcdulaney/posts/meet-the-new-wef-chairman-peter-brabeck-letmathe-former-ceo-of-nestle-who-famous/9773341779379095/ 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/647806630513218/?multi_permalinks=984996463460898&hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen  

https://enterthereelworld.com/2025/01/27/top-10-james-bond-villains  

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Ernst_Stavro_Blofeld_(007)  

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/amazon-007-takeover-impact-future-james-bond-1236155844  

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=deepfakes 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI+and+deepfake+dangers

A Zelensky Deepfake Was Quickly Defeated. The Next One Might Not Be

 https://www.wired.com/story/zelensky-deepfake-facebook-twitter-playbook/

This can definitely become a big problem.

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/16/1087062648/deepfake-video-zelenskyy-experts-war-manipulation-ukraine-russia

https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/are-you-better-than-a-machine-at-spotting-a-deepfake/

AI and deepfake dangers

 https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2025/watchdog-group-public-citizen-demands-openai-withdraw-ai-video-app-sora-over-deepfake-dangers/ 

https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/unregulated-generative-ai-dangers-open-source

https://bhr.stern.nyu.edu/quick-take/turmoil-at-openai-points-to-dangers-of-testing-generative-artificial-intelligence-in-the-wild/ 

https://spectrum.ieee.org/open-source-ai-2666932122

https://openai.com/global-affairs/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI+and+deepfake+dangers

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=OpenAI

Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot goes viral with mind-blowing deep-fakes

 https://nypost.com/2024/08/22/business/elon-musks-grok-ai-chatbot-goes-viral-with-mind-blowing-deepfakes/

It's all such B$! 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/16/elon-musk-grok-ai/

How far can it go?

https://nextgenaireport.com/elon-musks-grok-uses-black-forest-labs-controversial-ai-image-generator/

https://cybernews.com/news/zuckerberg-trashes-grok-hyperrealistic-deepfake MZ sure doesn't like it.

https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2024/03/this-super-realistic-deepfake-shows.html

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/deepfake

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=deep-fakes

BECK DEEPFAKES AS YOUNG PAUL MCCARTNEY

 https://nerdist.com/article/beck-deepfake-paul-mccartney-find-my-way-collaboration-music-video

The theme here seems to be Beck pretending to be PM.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/paul-mccartney-deepfake-beck-find-my-way-1200809

Paul McCartney, Beck - Find My Way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Q4hAQ4fEw , https://www.youtube.com/c/PaulMcCartney/videos

CGI will only become more popular and if done correctly, it might almost be like the original.

However, A.I. and deepfake tech will always just be an imitation.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Paul+McCartney

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Deepfakes

DeepFake of Elon Musk or Lookalike?

Well, it was just a matter of time when someone would pull off a deepfake of Elon_Musk.

https://nypost.com/2021/12/16/elon-musk-lookalike-dubbed-yi-long-musk-stuns-fans

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/you-can-find-a-fake-anything-in-china-including-a-fake-elon-musk-meet-yi-long-musk-176691.html

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/269387/20211215/viral-elon-musk-chinese-lookalike-dubbed-yi-long-tesla-ceo.htm

https://mirrorimages.co/portfolio/elon-musk-look-alike

Kevin_Durand just naturally looks close enough to play Elon Musk. https://www.instagram.com/p/CSUpDqlpqDP , https://www.instagram.com/thekevindurand/?hl=en Of course EM has a dog as well. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1437179881260032016

https://www.thethings.com/elon-musk-biopic-the-real-life-iron-man-kevin-durand-twin

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/kevin-durand-as-elon-musk.25706

https://archive.nerdist.com/3-actors-who-should-and-3-who-shouldnt-play-elon-musk-in-a-movie

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/found-a-actor-who-looks-just-elon-musk.94406

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elon-Musk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk_in_popular_culture

https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2021-elon-musk , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbVSZvC7UxY

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/269423/20211215/elon-musk-gets-financial-times-person-year-newsweek-disruptors-hof%E2%80%94tech.htm

https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk/?sh=3f4497657999

https://twitter.com/elonmusk , https://www.instagram.com/elonmusk/?hl=en

https://nypost.com/tag/doppelgangers

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Elon+Musk

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=DeepFake

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=doppelgangers

Dangers of Deepfakes

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/19/russia-ukraine-infowar-deepfakes

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/13/what-are-deepfakes-and-how-can-you-spot-them

It’s Getting Harder to Spot a deepfake video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLoI9hAX9dw , https://www.youtube.com/BloombergTV/videos

Top 20 Best Deepfake Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PINeQV0LH6k , https://www.youtube.com/user/WatchMojo/videos

10 Top Wild West Gunslingers Animated with Deep Nostalgia DeepFake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNaQegL9mGU

Celebrities Who Look Eerily Similar To People From The Past https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR7728rFG5Q

So eventually when you answer a FaceTime call, will it be the genuine person or an impostor?

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Deepfakes

OpenAI deems its voice cloning tool too risky for general release

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/31/openai-deems-its-voice-cloning-tool-too-risky-for-general-release

How secure can a deep fake voice be? How safe can biometric-technology really be?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/31/openai-deems-its-voice-cloning-tool-too-risky-for-general-release This is the problem, even with all the potential biometric data from a person, someone or something might be able to create a deep fake.

https://nypost.com/2024/04/01/business/openai-says-its-voice-cloning-tool-too-risky-to-release/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/worried-about-ai-voice-clone-scams-create-family-password

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39886534

https://oecd.ai/en/incidents/76387

https://www.telecomreview.com/articles/reports-and-coverage/7263-caution-ahead-exploring-the-benefits-and-dangers-of-ai-voice-cloning

https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/ai-voice-cloning-newest-cyber-scam

https://www.waterstons.com/insights/articles/voice-cloning-good-bad-and-ugly

https://www.mcafee.com/blogs/privacy-identity-protection/artificial-imposters-cybercriminals-turn-to-ai-voice-cloning-for-a-new-breed-of-scam/

https://www.nuance.com/omni-channel-customer-engagement/authentication-and-fraud-prevention/gatekeeper/voice-deepfake-detection.html

https://cybersecurity-magazine.com/?s=Biometric+Security 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=OpenAI 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI+and+deepfake+dangers

The Old and the Young and CGI...

 "Captain America looks a bit different at the end of Avengers: Endgame, but that's definitely still Chris Evans as Steve Rogers." https://screenrant.com/avengers-endgame-old-capatain-america-actor-chris-evans

https://screenrant.com/falcon-winter-soldier-captain-america-steve-rogers-after-endgame

https://screenrant.com/captain-america-mcu-return-chris-evans-debunked-marvel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Rogers_(Marvel_Cinematic_Universe) Of course a person playing an older version of a character can be done with makeup or a prosthetic or CGI. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154796/mediaviewer/rm3250236929 The contemporary, as is. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154796/mediaviewer/rm3170809857 Or young but in another time. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458339/mediaviewer/rm2479472384 Sometimes a little CGI here & there can go a long way. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478970/mediaviewer/rm2875671808/?ft0=name&fv0=nm0000140&ft1=image_type&fv1=still_frame Ant Man https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478970/characters/nm0000140?ref_=tt_cl_t2

A much younger and smaller Steve Rogers. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458339/mediaviewer/rm2508504832 

Before and after. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458339/mediaviewer/rm3246702336

Bulking up. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458339/mediaviewer/rm2630467328

Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154664/mediaviewer/rm282488064/?ft0=name&fv0=nm0000168&ft1=image_type&fv1=still_frame This is a fantastic example of using a lot of CGI when its essential. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154664/mediaviewer/rm1735748864/?ft0=name&fv0=nm0000168&ft1=image_type&fv1=still_frame Why use Mission Impossible masks when you can apply a good layer of CGI? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154664/characters/nm0000168?ref_=tt_cl_t2

We Made Marvel R-Rated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5-3eujJyZE , https://www.youtube.com/c/corridorcrew/videos 

"In the sequel, there's a continuation of the original club scene. It's depicted via a flashback where the Zamundan prince realizes that he has a long-lost son back in the United States. But this sequence does more than just set up Coming 2 America's premise and reference the '88 original: in the club and in the apartment, both Akeem and Semmi appear de-aged. In real life, Murphy is 59 and Hall is 65, but they appear eerily similar to how they looked 33 years ago — thanks to CGI effects." https://screenrant.com/coming-2-america-akeem-semmi-deaging-technology-explained

https://www.indiewire.com/2017/01/rogue-one-cgi-star-wars-grand-moff-tarkin-princess-leia-1201765146 Sometimes it might be for continuity or there are key scenes that require the likeness of a person that is no longer alive. https://www.businessinsider.com/cgi-moff-tarkin-rogue-one-guy-henry-2017-1

How 'Rogue One' Recreated Grand Moff Tarkin | Design FX | WIRED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUIHzanm5Mk 

How Rogue One Created Princess Leia, Grand Moff Tarkin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMB2sLwz0Do

"'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' director Gareth Edwards sits down with CNN's Frank Pallotta to discuss fan backlash against the CGI versions of Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher in the film." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GM5iagkZmo

https://screenrant.com/rogue-one-cgi-tarkin-leia-video-deepfake-better Too bad that this technique wasn't used in the first place.

We Made a Better CGi Luke Skywalker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=861gfPVmgdc , https://www.youtube.com/c/corridorcrew/videos

It just goes to show that there is always someone that can do a better job.

We Made Star Wars R-Rated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ8mwFiXlP8 , https://www.youtube.com/c/corridorcrew/videos 

What It Was Really Like To See Star Wars In 1977 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSaLGHklyr0

People of various ages can be put into old and new movies in the form of a deep fake. https://screenrant.com/falcon-winter-soldier-billy-dee-williams-mark-hamill-deepfake

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=CGI

Alphaville: une étrange aventure de L. Caution

Alphaville was quite an amazing movie when it was released in 1965 and still provides an important warning. The technocratic dictatorship of Alphaville seems to be in a parallel reality or in an alternate universe. https://letterboxd.com/film/alphaville 

https://www.newwavefilm.com/french-new-wave-encyclopedia/alphaville.shtml

https://en.unifrance.org/movie/2152/alphaville , https://www.filmsite.org/alphaville.html

http://www.frenchfilms.org/review/alphaville-1965.html

http://www.talkingpix.co.uk/Article_Alphaville.html , https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/38-alphaville 

https://www.criterion.com/films/207-alphaville , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UitB6c8QP80

"Alpha 60 is a sentient computer system created by von Braun, which is in complete control of all of Alphaville.

Alpha 60 has outlawed free thought and individualist concepts like love, poetry, and emotion in the city, replacing them with contradictory concepts or eliminating them altogether. One of Alpha 60's dictates is that "people should not ask 'why', but only say 'because'". People who show signs of emotion are presumed to be acting illogically and are executed. There is a dictionary in every hotel room that is continuously updated when words that are deemed to evoke emotion become banned. As a result, Alphaville is an inhuman, alienated society." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphaville_(film)#Plot

Before THX_1138 in 1971 and Blade_Runner in 1982, there had to be Alphaville, the AI run city. 

https://nerdist.com/article/alphaville-gave-us-blade-runner-matrix

A world in which AI is almost everywhere and linked to the  

https://www.rand.org/blog/articles/2020/10/the-internet-of-bodies-will-change-everything-for-better-or-worse.html , https://www.rand.org/multimedia/video/2020/10/29/what-is-the-internet-of-bodies.html  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0bXUxRqy8g

Prepare for the ‘internet of bodies’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHteT1zrSfw

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/05/blog-post_79.html ai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxzcD04rwc8 ar

The Future of Ecommerce: 9 Trends That Will Exist in 2030 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQjuEygcS3A

https://beaubourg-avocats.fr/en/cryptocurrency-laws-regulations-france , 

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230628-eu-to-take-one-giant-leap-towards-launching-digital-version-of-euro

"La Défense was in 2017 ranked by Ernst & Young as the leading central business district in continental Europe, and the fourth in the world."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France#Economy

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/11/29/france-luxembourg-test-cbdc-for-100m-euro-bond-issue , 

https://www.reuters.com/technology/france-singapore-switzerland-jointly-test-central-bank-digital-currencies-2022-11-02 ,

https://triple-a.io/crypto-ownership-france-2022 , 

https://www.banque-france.fr/en/communique-de-presse/banque-de-france-has-successfully-completed-first-tranche-its-experimentation-programme-central-bank , 

https://www.globallegalinsights.com/practice-areas/blockchain-laws-and-regulations/france

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake 

https://innovation.banque-france.fr/fr/challenges/challenge-banque-france-deepfake?lang=fr

"L'activité du corps humain associée à une tâche fournie à un utilisateur peut être utilisée dans un processus de minage d'un système de cryptomonnaie. Un serveur peut fournir une tâche à un dispositif d'un utilisateur qui est couplé de manière à communiquer avec le serveur. Un capteur couplé de manière à communiquer avec un dispositif de l'utilisateur ou compris dans ce dernier peut détecter l'activité corporelle de l'utilisateur. Des données d'activité corporelle peuvent être générées sur la base de l'activité corporelle détectée de l'utilisateur. Le système de cryptomonnaie de la présente invention couplé de manière à communiquer avec le dispositif de l'utilisateur peut vérifier si les données d'activité corporelle satisfont une ou plusieurs conditions définies par le système de cryptomonnaie, et attribuer une cryptomonnaie à l'utilisateur dont les données d'activité corporelle sont vérifiées." https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2020060606&_fid=US291464337

L.A. has serious plans to become a smart-city. Hopefully, it won't eventually become something like Alphaville. 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Alphaville

Tom Cruise vs Brad Pitt Deepfake Sparks Copyright Fight With TikTok

 https://www.military.com/feature/2026/02/15/tom-cruise-vs-brad-pitt-deepfake-sparks-copyright-fight-tiktok.html  

https://technologymagazine.com/top10/top-10-military-technology-companies-putting-AI-into-action

https://www.intereconomics.eu/contents/year/2025/number/2/article/big-tech-and-the-us-digital-military-industrial-complex.html  

How AI Companies Got Caught Up in US Military Efforts https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-silicon-empires-nick-srnicek/

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202510/20/WS68f599c6a310f735438b5e2d.html 

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https://thehangover.fandom.com/wiki/The_Monkey

 "The Hangover Part II" (2011) on TNT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh372p5mWcI

Guess ad in Vogue magazine sparks controversy with its A.I. models

 https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Style/controversy-stirs-ai-generated-models-new-guess-ads/story?id=124271323

At first human jobs are gradually reduced with AI and Robots. DeepFake entertainment continues to grow and people in the entertainment industry get more and more concerned. Then robots are spun to do some menial jobs and dangerous tasks, initially reducing the risk to people. Then, once a critical tipping point is reached, people will be reduced or phased out in big numbers.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/03/the-uproar-over-vogues-ai-generated-ad-isnt-just-about-fashion/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_(2002_film)

https://www.designrush.com/news/guess-faces-backlash-over-ai-models-in-vogue-campaign

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/style/vogue-ai-models-guess-campaign

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_(2002_film)#Production

Ex-Google Exec (WARNING): The Next 15 Years Will Be Hell Before We Get To Heaven! - Mo Gawdat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9a1nLw70p0

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI-generated+models

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=DeepFake 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Simone

Seedance 2.0, a new AI video generation tool from ByteDance...

the Chinese parent company of TikTok, can create hyper-realistic versions of Hollywood actors and characters, sparking copyright concerns https://www.businessinsider.com/tom-cruise-brad-pitt-jeffrey-epstein-video-deepfake-seedance-bytedance-2026-2

AI2027: Is this how AI might destroy humanity?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UufaK3pQMg BBC World Service 

AI model in Vogue raises concerns about beauty standards https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgeqe084nn4o 

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/vogue-ai-models-guess-advert-b2797224.html

AI will be able to copy or imitate anyone.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI-generated+models

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=DeepFake 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Simone

Tom Hanks alerts fans about AI ads using his voice to sell ‘wonder drugs’

 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-08-30/tom-hanks-warning-fraudulent-ai-ads-wonder-drugs

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/tom-hanks-warns-ai-deepfake-scam-likeness-1235092071/

https://medium.com/@abebellini/issues-with-ai-the-tom-hanks-deep-fake-6076d75eb984

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/technology/tom-hanks-ai-dental-video.html

Deep-fake in The Running Man movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVdOr0z6X7Y 

Of course the tech was much more limited, back in the day. Thus, the movie could only provide a basic depiction of deep-fake tech.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=deep-fakes

The Harrison Ford Saga

Harrison_Ford was born in 1942 and could have comfortably retired many years ago. To be part of two big movie series like Star+Wars and Indiana_Jones is a great accomplishment. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Harrison_Ford 

Three, if you count the Blade_Runner movies.

HF knows that he has a huge fan base. https://www.indiewire.com/t/harrison-ford

He is in a very fortunate position to still do an occasional movie, just for fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones#Films , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dRw7zuP0PQ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCZ_FPBDl0g 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Kingdom_of_the_Crystal_Skull , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz3dKqTjZO4 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Kingdom_of_the_Crystal_Skull#Sequel

https://www.facebook.com/indianajones , https://www.digitalspy.com/indiana-jones

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/19438609.vintage-motors-indiana-jones-5-set-glasgow-spotted-close-ibrox-stadium

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/19436754.everything-know-far-indiana-jones-5-set-glasgow/

https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/1461221/Indiana-Jones-5-set-photos-Glasgow-Indiana-Jones-5-setting-Moon-Landing

https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a855613/indiana-jones-5-cast-release-date-plot-news-trailer-title-harrison-ford/

https://variety.com/t/indiana-jones-5 , https://deadline.com/tag/indiana-jones-5

https://www.indiewire.com/t/indiana-jones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ford_filmography 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Solo , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Deckard

http://www.californiaherps.com/films/snakefilms/BladeRunner.html

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Blade+Runner

Harrison Ford in Solo: A Star Wars Story [DeepFake] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC3uH4Xw4Xo , https://www.youtube.com/c/Shamook/videos

https://screenrant.com/indiana-jones-snake-fear-phobia-explained 

https://indianajones.fandom.com/wiki/Snake_variants , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClwIj3x24Q4 , https://indianajones.fandom.com/wiki/Ophidiophobia 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=snakes  

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Indiana+Jones

AI deep-fakes and misinterpretations

 https://www.scmagazine.com/news/deepfakes-will-hurt-30-of-organizations-trust-in-biometrics-by-2026

Deep-fakes are an ongoing concern.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/01/in-an-increasingly-fake-world-biometrics-technology-can-help-you-prove-your-identity/

https://www.nuance.com/omni-channel-customer-engagement/authentication-and-fraud-prevention/gatekeeper/voice-deepfake-detection.html

https://cybersecurity-magazine.com/?s=Biometric+Security

AI-generated rat with wrong anatomy ends up in a scientific journal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs4r9NwdjRs

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=deep-fakes

Hyperreal is working on digital celebrities you can talk to

 https://newatlas.com/technology/interview-hyperreal-remington-scott/

It becomes a question of, how real do you want it to be?

https://www.hyperreal.io/hyperreal

https://fastcompanyme.com/co-design/rise-of-the-synthetic-celebrity-superplastic-embodies-a-new-generation-of-influencers-and-theyre-unreal/

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/deepfake-tom-cruise-creator-launches-production-house-creating-hyperreal-content/1720223

Seconds (1966 film) and another Paul McCartney?

Seconds is quite a wild Sci-Fi movie and was released in the autumn of 1966.

https://www.criterion.com/films/28428-seconds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seconds_(1966_film)#Plot

It's as if someone wanted to take some aspects of the story and start a Paul_is_dead rumor.

"According to Tony Barrow, who wrote about it in his book "John, Paul, George, Ringo and me," the rumours about McCartney's death started circulating in September 1966.^[1] At the time, Barrow was the press officer for the Beatles and was responsible for fielding calls from fans and the media. He began receiving a number of dubious calls from people asking about whether Paul was alright, but he denied those claims due to the fact he claimed to have called Paul. In early 1967, a similar rumour circulated in London that Paul McCartney had been killed in a traffic accident while driving along the M1 motorway on 7 January.^[2] The rumour was acknowledged and rebutted in the February issue of The Beatles Book.^[2] McCartney then alluded to the rumour during a press conference held around the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in May." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead#Beginnings

Somewhere in-between the fall of 1966 and early 1967 was when the Paul rumor started to take shape.

The Rumor

"Nobody knows where or when the rumor began.

The earliest printed record of a Paul-is-dead story appears in the February 1967 issue of Beatles Book Monthly, the magazine of the official Beatles Fan Club.

It contains a one-paragraph article entitled “False Rumour.”

“The seventh of January was very icy, with dangerous conditions on the M1 motorway linking London with the midlands, and towards the end of the day, a rumor swept London that Paul McCartney had been killed in a car crash on the M1. But of course, there was absolutely no truth in it at all, as the Beatles’ press officer found out when he telephoned Paul’s St. Johns Wood home, and was answered by Paul himself ... ”

Speculation that Paul had been killed circulated around London during much of 1967.

McCartney himself alluded to the rumor during a Beatles press conference held in May of that year.

And a subsequent article in the New York Times recounts an incident at a London party in fall of ‘67, at which the Paul-is-dead rumor was joked about in the presence of the reporter.

At this point the trail of documentation goes completely cold.

Then, two years later, the rumor surfaced again..." http://ludix.com/moriarty/paul.html

http://www.gadflyonline.com/home/archive/MayJune00/archive-mccartney.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead#Premise

https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/watch-this-young-paul-mccartney-deepfake-turn-into-beck

http://thelennonprophecy.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-beatles-in-nycs-central-park-on.html

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Paul+McCartney