Reanimated AI Greta Garbo stars again … in a ball-bearing advert

An industrial company used AI and text prompts to reanimate actor Greta Garbo for an advertisement. The production team avoided feeding copyrighted images into the software, and Garbo's estate is open to future film roles for her likeness. This establishes new methods for commercial branding and casting through posthumous digital doubles.

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