[squarefoot]

The future will be AI lawyers battling for rights of AI generated music in the style of deceased artists on behalf of AI media corporations at the expense of robotic listeners.

Before all of this, we'll probably see improvised bands of deceased artists playing together AI generated music in their own style, not to mention long dead actors appearing in new movies etc. AI technology is going to give law firms a lot of work in the future.

[joeframbach]

And that robot artist will be named "Weird AI".

[ipsin]

I'm thinking of characters like Captain Jack Sparrow (partially inspired by Keith Richards) or Zuse from Tron: Legacy (partially inspired by David Bowie).

When it's less "inspired by" and more literally "0.5 David Bowie", I also imagine a lot of law firms writing letters.

[TeMPOraL]

This subthread made me immediately think of:

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a human face booting on a stamp forever."

(From the last story at https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/10/17/the-moral-of-the-story...)

[squarefoot]

One of the many many examples of why the 2006 Idiocracy docu^h^h^hmovie would well deserve a sequel. Probably even two, considering how much material we produced since then.