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Hotel Reverie

Season 7 Episode 3
Overall Progress: 75%
βœ” Achieved❌ Not yet achieved

A Hollywood actress is transported into an immersive, high-tech remake of a vintage film where she must stick to the script to return home.

Fictional Tech/Societal Changes

  • πŸ€–βœ”AI-generated actors
  • πŸ”Ήβœ”Simulated reality
  • πŸ”Ήβœ”Digital rights of performers

How Close Are We?

This is a critical real-world issue. The 2023 SAG-AFTRA strikes fought specifically against studios scanning actors to use their AI likenesses. Generative video tools like OpenAI Sora can now create realistic scenes from text. Virtual production (The Volume) places actors in digital worlds. We are very close to 'acting' becoming a post-production AI process.

Sources

Hotel Reverie - How Close to Black Mirror Are We?