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Ozzy Osbourne may be gone, but his family is making sure fans will still be able to hear from the Prince of Darkness for years to come.
According to a report from the Daily Mail published on Friday, May 22, Ozzy’s widow, Sharon Osbourne, and son Jack Osbourne revealed plans for an AI-powered digital avatar of the late Black Sabbath rocker. The hologram will reportedly allow fans to interact with a virtual version of Ozzy using his voice, likeness and personality.
“You can ask [the digital] Ozzy anything, and he will answer you in his own voice – and the answers will be what Ozzy would have said,” Sharon, 73, said at the convention, per the publication.
“We’re going to take it all around the world. People can talk to him and he will talk back. Elvis died 50 years ago, and everybody knows Elvis. I just want that for Ozzy,” she added.
However, not everyone was on board with the projects.
“They’re still trying [to] squeeze money out of this man. Let him rest,” one X user wrote.
Another added, “Im sorry that’s ghoulish as f**k, I grew up listening to the man and Alice Cooper in my early teens, but no to this.”
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hey i saw that before
Be Right Back - Black Mirror… it wasn’t supposed to be a documentary. it wasn’t supposed to be a documentary. it wasn’t supposed to be a documentary it wasn’t supposed to be a documentary it wasn’t supposed to be a documentary it wasn’t supposed-
“Finally we’ve invented the Torment Nexus from that super popular book ‘Don’t invent the Torment Nexus’”
The point of satire is it’s supposed to mirror reality, this is literally what they were mocking.
Holograms of dead celebrities have been a thing for at least a decade.
it wasn’t satire, it was a warning of what could happen if you mix (at the time) sci-fi technology with human psychology
holograms of celebrities were a thing sure, but they said one liners or pre-recorded phrases. here we are talking about an AI that mimics a person’s speech being put in a hologram that will probably also use AI to mimic behaviours