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AI is giving life to a resurrection economy
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As AI tools become more sophisticated, they=E2=80=99re increasingly being u= sed to imitate the voices of the dead, with and without permiss= ion. It can be big business. According to an industry source with knowledge= of deals between estates and AI companies that reproduce voices, they are = typically paid out to estates in cash ranging between five and seven figure= s.

  • Take Val Kilmer, who died in 2025: he=E2=80=99ll appear via AI in the u= pcoming historical drama =E2=80=9CAs Deep as the Grave.=E2=80=9D Kilmer=E2= =80=99s AI-generated likeness (he signed on to the film years ago but never= made it onto set) will reportedly be in more than an hour of the finished = film, with his estate=E2=80=99s permission.
  • Or James Earl Jones =E2=80=94 the iconic voice behind Darth Vader =E2=80=94= who reached an agreement before his death with Disney=E2=80=99s Lucasfilm to <= a href=3D"https://link.sherwood.news/click/45698922.15646405/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3= cudmFuaXR5ZmFpci5jb20vaG9sbHl3b29kLzIwMjIvMDkvZGFydGgtdmFkZXJzLXZvaWNlLWVtY= W5hdGVkLWZyb20td2FyLXRvcm4tdWtyYWluZT91dG1fc291cmNlPXNuYWNrcyZ1dG1fbWVkaXVt= PWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1zbmFja3NfMjAyNjA1MTQmdXRtX2NvbnRlbnQ9NTI4OTBhMmE= wMmFmNTVlOWM4YmVhYWYyZDFkMDk0NDc/65c52b4d998ecb18d12e2d33Ba9b7cf91" style= =3D"text-decoration: underline; color: #5869ff;">recreate his voice= using AI for future =E2=80=9CStar Wars=E2=80=9D projects. But= he may not have agreed to his Vader-voiced =E2=80=9CFortnite=E2=80=9D char= acter, if he knew users would make the Sith Lord say =E2=80=9Cskibidi toilet= =E2=80=9D and various curse words.
  • Meanwhile, ElevenLabs lets users have text, PDFs, links, a= nd audiobooks read aloud by departed stars such as Judy Garland, Burt Reyno= lds, John Wayne, Albert Einstein, and more (all with permission), and enoug= h people are ponying up the $11-a-month fee that it=E2=80=99s sent the compa= ny=E2=80=99s valuation soaring.
  • But AI is far from a pure boon for estates. CMG = Worldwide, a legacy management firm with a client list including Jim Henson= , Andre the Giant, and James Dean, refers to AI as an =E2=80=9Cunprecedente= d threat.=E2=80=9D 
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Imitating the dead for financial gain is nothing new, but what=E2=80=99s cl= ear is that AI is making it easier =E2=80=94 and harder to discern from the= real thing than, say, a person in an Elvis jumpsuit singing in a casino.&n= bsp;

Meanwhile, the public=E2=80=99s view on this use of AI leans heavily negati= ve, with one survey finding that 51% of respondents said replicating the vo= ice of a deceased actor or celebrity was =E2=80=9Cnot acceptable.=E2=80=9D = Still, the number of AI deals that involve =E2=80=9Cbringing back=E2=80=9D = dead celebrities continues to grow every day, as do the profits= .

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GameStop=E2=80=99s (rebuffed) bid= to purchase eBay is famously half cash, half stock.

So, in order to try to evaluate whether eBay shareholders might like this deal= or not, it helps to have some thoughts about what gives GameStop shares their value.

The three things that Sherwood News=E2=80=99 Luke Kawa believes help explai= n why the video game and collectibles retailer=E2=80=99s shares trade where= they do (to varying degrees) are:

  1. GameStop enjoys a =E2=80=9Cmeme premium,=E2=80= =9D 
  2. GameStop dese= rves a higher valuation in 2026 versus 2019 because it=E2=80=99s been a bet= ter-run company under CEO Ryan Cohen, and
  3. GameStop bulls expect Cohen to do something transformative with the cash at= his disposal.

GameStop went from perceived obsolescence to a market cap of $24 billion in= a few months based on retail enthusiasm and a short squeeze. Shares mooned= again when the messiah of the movement, Keith Gill, returned to the scene = in 2024. The willingness of retail traders to support the company has produ= ced eye-popping short-term upside in two instances, during which management= raised more than $5 billion in cash. That=E2=80=99s right= -tail risk up, left-tail risk down =E2=80=94 an =E2=80=9Cearned=E2=80=9D me= me premium, one could say.

Cohen=E2=80=99s operational ta= ctics have tamped down on left-tail risk. The retailer generates free cash = flow under his leadership more consistently than it ever has. Cohen=E2=80= =99s continuing to close locations that don=E2=80=99t offer enough bang for= the buck, while selling, general, and administrative expenses are down materially.

But even if you buy reason No. 2 and = are all in on =E2=80=9CCaptain Cohen,=E2=80=9D as Bloomberg=E2=80=99s Matt = Levine put it (and Kawa largely agrees!), =E2=80=9CGameStop is really offer= ing eBay shareholders nothing except Cohen.=E2=80=9D

Unfortunately, Cohen=E2=80=99s day-to-day operational abilities don=E2= =80=99t seem to be something the market has been focused on during his time= at GameStop.

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What really hurts the case, in Kawa=E2=80=99s view, is the third bullet: tr= ansformation. To the extent that GameStop bulls were long the stock because= Cohen could do something =E2=80=9Cgenius or totally, totally foo= lish,=E2=80=9D they were already pricing in the benefits of a = successful acquisition! That weakens the case for eBay shareholders to acce= pt the stock as currency to complete this transaction. 

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