{"id":15141,"date":"2024-07-15T06:38:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T04:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/15\/uncanny-me-review-skin-deep-exploration-of-cloning-tech\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T06:38:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T04:38:44","slug":"uncanny-me-review-skin-deep-exploration-of-cloning-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/15\/uncanny-me-review-skin-deep-exploration-of-cloning-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncanny Me review \u2013 skin-deep exploration of cloning tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unsurprisingly, creating a 3D avatar to increase a model\u2019s income is fraught with moral and ethical questions, but this documentary seems uninterested in addressing them<\/p>\n<p>Doubles, doppelgangers, clones; twin visions have long fascinated directors and audiences alike. It\u2019s unnerving, however, when technologies that once belonged to the realm of science fiction are now realised in the present. A German model called Lale is interested in creating a 3D clone of herself and this documentary from Katharina Pethke taps into a new unsettling reality.<\/p>\n<p>The rationale behind the project sounds promising on the surface. As the company that offers the body scanning service to Lale explains, a 3D clone can take on a larger number of campaigns, without the hassle of paying an in-person crew, thus increasing Lale\u2019s income. What is striking, however, is that the firm\u2019s examples of 3D avatars are all of non-white models.With the recent push for more inclusivity in the fashion and modelling industry, could this be an easy way for brands to claim diversity without expanding their talent pool?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/article\/2024\/jul\/15\/uncanny-me-review-skin-deep-exploration-of-cloning-tech\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/268c8ecc05be3f36234c33dad1e4379559da3409\/327_0_1587_953\/master\/1587.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9d99c31c039f7206b0d95de6a1389b32\" title=\"Uncanny Me review \u2013 skin-deep exploration of cloning tech\" \/>Unsurprisingly, creating a 3D avatar to increase a model\u2019s income is fraught with moral and ethical questions, but this documentary seems uninterested in addressing them<br \/>\nDoubles, doppelgangers, clones; twin visions have long fascinated directors and audiences alike. It\u2019s unnerving, however, when technologies that once belonged to the realm of science fiction are now realised in the present. A German model called Lale is interested in creating a 3D clone of herself and this documentary from Katharina Pethke taps into a new unsettling reality.<br \/>\nThe rationale behind the project sounds promising on the surface. As the company that offers the body scanning service to Lale explains, a 3D clone can take on a larger number of campaigns, without the hassle of paying an in-person crew, thus increasing Lale\u2019s income. What is striking, however, is that the firm\u2019s examples of 3D avatars are all of non-white models.With the recent push for more inclusivity in the fashion and modelling industry, could this be an easy way for brands to claim diversity without expanding their talent pool? Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unsurprisingly, creating a 3D avatar to increase a model\u2019s income is fraught with moral and ethical questions, but this documentary seems uninterested in addressing them Doubles, doppelgangers, clones; twin visions have long fascinated directors and audiences alike. It\u2019s unnerving, however, when technologies that once belonged to the realm of science fiction are now realised in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/15\/uncanny-me-review-skin-deep-exploration-of-cloning-tech\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uncanny Me review \u2013 skin-deep exploration of cloning tech<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}