Dead Star Trek actors sing again: AI-powered parody video stuns complexity blogger
fortnow · x · 2026-11-16
Computational complexity blogger Lance Fortnow highlights a Star Trek villains parody song video (modeled on "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General"). Remarkably, it appears to be "sung" by the original actors in costume—but they are all dead, and both the images and voices look and sound just like the characters, so AI was almost certainly involved. Fortnow notes this would have been impossible X years ago (inviting readers to guess X), and wonders at what age people stop being impressed by such feats, drawing an analogy to movie VFX becoming unremarkable over time.
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