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Comment by dTal | Hacker News Reader

s/can be inaccurate/are a complete fabrication

I think that puppeteering the dead is actually quite a disturbing thing to do in general, and find endeavors such as the "resurrection" of Tupac to be in very poor taste.

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It’s a fair point but I think there’s a difference between some music group that owns the rights to Tupac’s likeness creating an image of him to sell more things and a family member wanting to see an deceased relative in motion.

But I take your point that it could be used in distasteful ways, much like how Tupac was used (IMO).

It can be both a fabrication and accurate, though. That's what people are so impressed by here.

Accurate to what? How some other person moves? Its like wearing someone else's skin Ed Gein style. Maybe if they were modeling it based on other photography.

But it can't be accurate. Actors know that even micromovements tell a story and convey emotion. The computer cannot possibly infer enough about the person from a single photo to reconstruct that story. Were they a fidgety person? Were they tired that day? Bored? Impatient because they need to get the store before it closes and the photoshoot is taking a long time?

Imagine running this software on a photo of your parents. Do you think you would be impressed by the accuracy?

Could not agree more. I also maintain the unpopular opinion that speculatory colorization of black and white historical imagery is also doing damage to the accuracy of the general historical canon.

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