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BBC Recreates Agatha Christie Using AI


The BBC has made an AI Agatha Christie for a Maestro course after adapting many of the author's novels.

Not an enormous amount is known about the legendary author’s life but researchers have spent years painstakingly examining the small number of recordings there are, her writings and old photographs in order to paint more of a picture for BBC Maestro. At Claridge’s today, BBC Studios CEO Brands and Licensing Nicki Sheard explained that the course has been made “with incredible care and the utmost respect” in terms of AI ethics and with the estate’s blessing. Earlier this week, BBC factual chief Jack Bootle said he will not use generative AI in TV shows to recreate landscapes if a place can be photographed.

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