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April 4th, 2024 - AI This-is-a-liberal-arts-college Homework 1 Repsonse
The Unjust Enrichment Lawsuit illustrates a side-effect of the progression of artificial intelligence research and commercial application. The lawsuit regards the use of a late actor’s image, crafted with the assistance of AI image generation technologies, playing the role of a character in the film. The lawsuit is being brought to court by the film production company which claims to hold the rights to use of the actor’s image, based on an agreement signed shortly before the actor’s death. The lawsuit is being brought against five defendants, including the actor’s estate, who chose to cinematically resurrect him in a 2016 Disney film.
Earlier this year, the voices of elementary-school and high-school age children were- according to the direction of their parents- revived, briefly, to take part in a campaign to reform American gun laws. This campaign parallels the efforts to reanimate the dead, a commonly taboo subject, but with an exceedingly positive response. These childrens’ voices weren’t used to generate profit for the parents, but few people would question that the terse synthesized message stating their identities, and their fates, didn’t reflect the wishes of the deceased. In the event of the film production introduced above, it feels less clear that the film actor was being honored in the film’s depiction of him rather than exploited for the attention posthumous role spawned.