From a utilitarian pov yes. But that's completely missing the artistic point. Why shoot a film when you could just feed the script into an AI?

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mrlonglong 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It could recreate missing episodes using the extant episodes. That's something worthwhile doing until someone finds them. It's not creating a complete new series.

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Mordisquitos 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

People want to find the missing episodes because of their historical value as actual human artistic creations, and not because they want to watch a thing that looks like an old missing episode.

There would be as much value in an "AI-recreated" missing episode as there would be in taking the audio of a modern episode and using AI to create a new video track for it.

	▲	zamadatix 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> People want to find the missing episodes because... Speak for yourself!

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tracker1 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Even if it's motion comic level animation, it'd still be nice to see combined with the audio recordings.