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Joan Is Awful
Season 6 Episode 1
Overall Progress: 75%
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A woman discovers her life is being adapted in real time into a streaming TV drama using AI and deepfake technology.
Fictional Tech/Societal Changes
- 🤖✔Deepfake entertainment
- 🤖✔AI-generated content
- 📱✔Surveillance for media
How Close Are We?
Generative video models like OpenAI's Sora and Runway Gen-3 can now create highly realistic scenes from text, bringing "synthetic media" to a new level. In 2024, the SAG-AFTRA strike highlighted actors' fears of being replaced by AI likenesses. While real-time adaptation of a person's life isn't happening yet, the ability to generate a full TV show starring an AI-cloned individual is now technically feasible.