Deepfakes and the Future of Entertainment - Comic Years

By the end of the 20th century, celebrity endorsements were certainly not unusual, except for the rather important detail that Astaire had been dead for 10 years at that point. Unsurprisingly then, reaction was mixed, bordering on negative. But a precedent had been set, so by the time Peter Cushing was digitally inserted into 2016's Rogue One, the resulting controversy was barely a blip. A year later, though, we learned about deepfakes. A deepfake is a video that's been created using a combination of a kind of machine learning, algorithms, and possibly magic.