Ctotheg t1_j74b0us wrote
Reply to comment by nerdline in I'm the head of video at France’s leading newspaper Le Monde. Our team recreated Charles De Gaulle's lost 1940 recording for France to resist the Nazis using historical sources and artificial intelligence. AMA about our investigation. by LeMonde_en
Very interesting question! Why aren’t we simply satisfied with the content of the speech, the script and its message?
Why do we require the voice to be “as historically accurate as possible”? What’s next, a replicated 3D video of the event that we can experience as if it’s happening in front of us? To what end?
Why isn’t the script and the content of the speech enough to satisfy our inquiring minds?
david-song t1_j74lqxq wrote
If we normalize this then we will also normalize AI retouches of other historical media, and it can be done wholesale in a way that Stalin could have only dreamed of
nerdline t1_j74mufr wrote
Maybe I’m fear-mongering but yes this is exactly what I have anxiety about
david-song t1_j74qg1h wrote
We need ways to sign and tag video and other media as authentic and ways for people and systems to vouch for it in a distributed fashion, and the tools to authenticate it built into media players. It needs to be part of the file formats, built into recorders and publishing processes. Then we can just treat everything that doesn't have proof as fake.
nerdline t1_j74mqen wrote
I definitely think of this more as an existential question, and a question of when - if ever - we will be satisfied
poly_lama t1_j74z6mi wrote
Why do we need to be satisfied with technological innovation?
ChickenSpawner t1_j74ksjs wrote
Why weren't we satisfied with 16-bit computers, colorless TV or even radio?
How cool would it not be to be able to experience the room he sat in while giving the speech, as a fly on the wall, fully immersed in the moment? I personally think that would be a sweet experience, not only here but in so many other epic moments of history as well.
To me it's the natural evolution of our storytelling capabilities, as long as we stay rooted in the present and reality it self it could be a great tool.
Witsand87 t1_j8cnvbx wrote
To me personally, as a former History and Art teacher, who also studied animation, it’s not about why really, it’s about could it be done? Things like this will always fall under “artistic impression”, as no matter the technology, we ourselves are only limited to the present, so we could never recreate something from the past 100% accurately. Unless we somehow figure out how to view the past in real time (which by the way is theoretically possible, maybe in the future). So best we can do is recreate parts of history to give us an idea of how it would have been. In the end it’s really just playing around for our own curiosity/ satisfaction/ etc.
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