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by abetusk 896 days ago
James Earl Jones, presumably hedging against his eventual demise, has allowed his voice to be used for things like the Star Wars franchise [0].

Small, independent film makers can now use a skeleton crew to voice parts.

I can't imagine it would be anything other than a niche service, but hearing the voice and, potentially, interacting with a chatbot/LLM with the voice of a passed love one.

This is off the top of my head. I would also guess that this technology is a stepping stone for other weird, interesting and profoundly helpful uses.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/24/23370097/darth-vader-jame...