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The news media has career recaps ready to go for all the major celebrities and public figures for when they die (lemmy.ca)
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Just saw a Facebook post where people were asking how ABC made a special about Rob Reiner so quickly and accusing it of being AI, even though this has been done with celebrities for a long time. He was 78, they figured he'd die soonish. The first part of the special is about the murder but the majority of it is recapping his life and career, they probably had most of it put together well in advance.

Remember when Biden dropped out of the presidential race and the media kept recapping his life and career? I'm convinced they were playing stuff they had put together for when he dies.

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[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 8 points 2 days ago

If this is news to you: most obituaries are written and produced during the subject's lifetime. Unless they leave life at a statistically unlikely age, the biggest chunks are in the can or pre-written so you can get a single person to do the voiceover over it all. Writers often start writing obits in the press. It lessens the burden of fact checking when the person actually punches their ticket.

So the Bidden footage was probably pre-produced. A similar package exists for the orange one as well. And Rob Reiner's would have been done as well. Although certainly nobody would have anticipated the way he died.

At this point in time you must suspect so-called AI to have its tendrils lodged in a lot of this stuff. I would suspect this less at media companies that still have more than a handful of actual humans employed. So the networks are probably okay. On clickbait dot news I'd be more suspicious.