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MarkUK
	Date Posted：2025-07-05 08:50:09 As you can imagine I'm rather mistrustful of this new-fangled AI, but below is something that's incredible, oddly emotional and slightly creepy at the same time.
shula	#1
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2025-07-06 11:40:55 I find AI very creepy -- yet I can't turn away.
MarkUK	#2
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2025-07-07 08:02:39 There are plenty of videos like this on YouTube. It's good to see people who normally look so grim smiling, I suppose it was because they had to stay still, no instant photography back then, and holding a smile is difficult. Easy to forget that none of what we're seeing is real.
majorshrapnel	#3
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2025-07-07 12:19:08 I wonder, given the chance would I want to see my parents ‘alive’ again, having no film of them before. It would be wonderfully sad I suppose.
MarkUK	#4
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2025-07-07 01:57:29 I was thinking on similar lines myself. I've got a photo of my great-grandmother who died in 1928, could she be "brought to life" by AI?
shula	#5
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2025-07-07 02:19:43 The answer is yes. I don't know how it's done. One of those "apps" maybe or a program(me) of some sort, but I know someone who did it with an old photo. While the relatives are still living, it was kinda neat and kinda weird to see them moving and smilling as young people.
MarkUK	#6
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2025-07-07 02:43:26 There was a storyline last year on the UK's most popular soap opera Coronation Street in which a character had her deceased young son "brought to life" by AI, it/he even interacted with her. Creepy to the rest of us but comforting to her. Not sure I'd go that far.
shula	#7
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2025-07-08 08:13:11 I couldn't go that far either. The one picture I have is borderline disturbing as it is because it's my son at a very young age. Of course I remember him in action and I also remember the photo session. Still, my response to him was "what work of the devil is this?" AI is tremendously fun when you know it's AI. I suspect that a lot of media we're fed, like commercials, involve AI.
MarkUK	#8
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2025-07-08 08:34:32 The real danger could come at Election time with AI figures telling us all sorts of believable rubbish. So far AI figures are too perfect that's how to spot them, but if they're refined "warts and all" we'll not really know truth from fiction.
shula	#9
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2025-07-09 12:41:14 It's a Brave New World.
Greystarfish1	#10
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2025-07-09 12:24:55 AI was used to impersonate US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, https://apnews.com/article/rubio-artificial-intelligence-impersonation-1b3cc78464404b54e63f4eba9dd4f5a9 . I see nations all over the world passing strict laws concerning AI. Tennessee has passed an AI law that protects the music industry, https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2024/1/10/tennessee-first-in-the-nation-to-address-ai-impact-on-music-industry.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELVIS_Act . I see this law being expanded.
shula	#11
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2025-07-09 01:05:09 This is a global battleground for sure. I had a "Harry Potter" moment imagining picking up a newspaper and the people are active in the pictures. It's coming.
MarkUK	#12
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2025-07-09 06:02:06 We have that over here, it's called television.
majorshrapnel	#13
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2025-07-09 08:42:30 AI? It’ll all end in tears, believe me.
pbandrew3rd	#14
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2025-07-10 12:20:32 I wonder, given the chance would I want to see my parents ‘alive’ again, having no film of them before. It would be wonderfully sad I suppose. On Ancestry.ca, a guy did the same to a black and white photo I had there of my Great Uncle who was killed in the first war. He is standing with his wife and daughter in a photo studio and I was impressed how much better the picture was in full colour.
pbandrew3rd	#15
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2025-07-10 12:51:32
pbandrew3rd	#16
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2025-07-10 12:53:15 AI? It’ll all end in tears, believe me. You're such a downer Art.
pbandrew3rd	#17
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2025-07-10 01:08:05 I find AI very creepy -- yet I can't turn away. I see what you mean girl. Simply fascinating to watch those videos when they bring them to life.
pbandrew3rd	#18
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2025-07-10 01:10:38 I wonder, given the chance would I want to see my parents ‘alive’ again, having no film of them before. It would be wonderfully sad I suppose. How many times over the years have I told you to buy a camera you cheap sod.
MarkUK	#19
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2025-07-10 02:07:57 I assume Art means moving pictures rather than photographs. Until recently the only time we ever saw moving images of our relations was on wedding videos. The only one I have of my dad who died in 2014 is my sister's wedding video from 1988.
pbandrew3rd	#20
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2025-07-10 08:43:32 I assume Art means moving pictures rather than photographs. Until recently the only time we ever saw moving images of our relations was on wedding videos. The only one I have of my dad who died in 2014 is my sister's wedding video from 1988. Now would I like something AI talking or asking me questions, I don't know about that. I think you need a certain app to do the AI thingy. Also might need windows 11 and not 10 like I'm still using.