A comic fable about image and identity in the modern world...
When two teenage hackers use deepfake technology to make parodies of an aging movie star, the star's final comeback attempt is threatened by an unprecedented competitor-her younger self!
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In an age of deepfake technology, can a fading star compete with her younger image and win?Vivien Williams, once the world's biggest movie star, tries one last-ditch effort to revive her flagging career. As she races to complete her new film ahead of an imminent actors' strike, forces beyond her control are deciding her fate...
Andy, a teenage hacker in love with Vivien, uses advanced technology to make tribute videos of her in the privacy of his own home. But his chaotic friend Bruno, mortified by Andy's obsession with the "over-the-hill" actress, steals the technology and posts public videos mocking Vivien.
The enraged star, finding herself in direct competition with her own image, solicits the FBI and her ardent intellectual property lawyer to demolish the pesky hackers.
Can Andy stop Bruno before the feds catch up with them? And will new technologies save Hollywood-or destroy it?!
DEEP FAKE takes a wry look at the film industry, celebrity, love, friendship, family ties-and copyright law.
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NOTICE: No artificial intelligence (AI) was used in the writing of this book...
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ABOUT THE AUTHORKevin M. Cunningham is a screenwriter, novelist, poet, and playwright, with degrees from MIT and Harvard. His stage adaptation of Little Women has been performed by theater companies across the United States and Europe.
