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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Robert Booth UK technology editor

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

Greta Garbo takes a drink
Greta Garbo in Anna Christie from 1930. Her likeness was created using AI imaging technology, including Google’s Nano Banana Pro. Photograph: MGM/Sportsphoto/Allstar

She shimmered in Hollywood’s silent movie era and lit up the first talkies – now Greta Garbo may be about to star in cinema’s new AI age.

More than a century after her screen debut and decades after her ashes were laid to rest in a Swedish woodland cemetery, the Hollywood superstar’s descendants are ready to consider an AI version of her taking a 21st-century film role.

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