Tremaine predicts that within 1-2 years, AI-generated celebrity personas will be producing music and acting in Hollywood.
“I have a theory that there are gonna be, mark my word, there are gonna be, like, AI celebrities. So the same way we look at, like, the way, like, brands have their mascots, like Mickey Mouse and, you know, Donald Duck. These are, like, these famous brands or these famous characters. We're gonna have real looking people that are AI, that are gonna be celebrities, that are producing music, that are acting. Because, I mean, if you guys have seen Sea Dance, I don't know what Hollywood looks like next year, you know, or in the next two years.”
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