

Thanks for this answer, really.
You saying about this film having a lot of documentation around the lost 43 minutes made me look into it. I did not know the story behind it, i.e. it being already cut by Welles, then the 43 minutes being cut out by studios, plus a lot of research and reconstruction already being made around it. Adding to that the fact this is not (thus far) a commercial endeavour, it does paint it in a different light. Finally, from what I can gather, it seems the “AI” being used here is more deepfake stuff on live scenes and less full image generation (which is the image that the text conjured for me, this is the problem with catchall marketing terms…)
All that to say, while I personally am not into these kinds of efforts (AI or not, but I appreciate the subjectivity of that sentiment) your comment did show the process, in this particular instance, seems to be very different from what I had initially imagined, so thank you.
Sorry about the downvotes and potentially angry responses you are/will be getting, I did not mean to lay down a trap for you.
Not stupid necessarily, but profoundly misanthropic.
I have never talked to or read from an AI shill who did not have a severely depressing view on humanity, with arguments being a variation of “oh yeah, LLMs are just parrots but so are we/so are most people”, and “comprehension is just pattern matching anyways”.
Which is really darkly hilarious in a way, because if you think of older, now clichéed, sci fi stories, then treating a machine capable of feelings and comprehension as a human rather than a tool is the human thing to do. But these people are so backwards that