Agatha Christie is one of the most prolific authors of crime ever to do so. She is practically the face of the murder-mystery novel, with her work adapting many times through the media on radio, scene, television and film for decades (Even if she was not a fan of most of them). There is something to say about how her stories, many of whom are in the dark that lurking in our inner shadows, are still hitting a chord with readers. Words speak for themselves, but about the new BBC development suggests that those from Christie's mouth will be spoken by a computer program.

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Today, the BBC Studios has announced that it is cooperating with the property Agatha Christie to launch a course of writing their streaming service based on BBC Maestro education. It sounds like a great idea until the discovery that AI's similarity will be used to convey these lessons (via Hollywood reporter):

"Using precisely renewed archival interviews, private letters and writings researched by a team of Christie experts, this pioneering course reconstructs its own voice and Christie's insight, guides you through the art of suspension, conspiracy twists and unforgettable characters."

It is a lot of words to say essentially to say that Christie is another artificial resurrection of the tomb. Actress Vivienne Keane, Who once played a key role in Christie's "The Mousetrap" stage. The celebrity author's frame with AI technology will embody, taking over its physical and loud attributes. It makes you wonder what the point of searching for hundreds of actors to find the closest authenticity of Christie's similarity was everything when they just cover Keane in digital makeup anyway.

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If you haven't caught so far, the use of AI during the media landscape is a problem that will not disappear any time soon. See how "Cobra Kai" revived the deceased road Morita for strong Kimo using unregulated technology. Part of what makes this whole endeavors so disturbing is that once again calls into question the autonomy of the dead. Nicky Sheard, brands and Licensing Director in BBC's studies, are unstable that the whole process was an "ethical and careful" way to respect Christie's legacy when something else.

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Some people will be in a hurry to point out that it is good at Christie's property, but it does not do it ethical. One is to profit from the work that was done while they were still alive, as opposed to recreating an artificial program based on things they wrote and how they May They said them. A dead person just can't talk about himself and put words in his mouth that they didn't do actually Talk loudly is disgusting. It is not unlike when director Morgan Neville conjoke Anthony Burdain's AI footage of the things he wrote, but never spoke loud about his documentary "Roadrunner".

Moreover, it shows incredible laziness on behalf of the team behind this project to imagine a distorted form of digital necrophilia of a beloved author, rather than just using Keane as it is. It seems so superfluous to leave the impression that viewers see authentic Christie transmits these lessons while going to all these lengths to make the whole experience much more distracting. The dead cannot agree, but their families can produce it. Even the only picture of the Agatha Christie Writing program released to the public is disturbing because it has absolutely no soul behind those eyes.

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