**AITA for thinking Al Green's estate is milking his legacy for all it's worth with a new AI-generated "virtual concert" tour?**
TL;DR: Soul legend's estate just announced a "holographic" show where an AI Al Green will "perform" his greatest hits. They're calling it "The Still Timeless Tour." Yeah, because nothing says "soul" like a deepfake crooning "Let's Stay Together" while I watch it from a toilet seat with a $150 ticket.
I mean, the man’s 78 years old and retired. He's a pastor. He literally gave up secular music for the Lord. But sure, let’s CGI him into a leather jumpsuit and have his zombie avatar do a choreographed dance number to a song he recorded when LBJ was president.
But wait, it gets worse. The press release said the AI was trained on "over 500 hours of live footage, vocal takes, and stage banter" to create "a performance indistinguishable from the original." Indistinguishable? So it’ll sound exactly like him, but won’t require him to actually sweat, get tired, or, you know, consent to being a digital puppet?
I'm already picturing the "interactive moments": "Hey, AI Al! Do the spin move! Say something about Vietnam!" The cringe will be so powerful it might warp spacetime.
And don't even get me started on the NFT "sound bites" they're bundling with VIP packages. $500 for a digital memory of a man who’s still alive. We're in hell.
So, Reddit, AITA for hoping the servers crash mid-show and the ghost of a vocoder glitches him into doing the Macarena forever? Or is this just the logical endpoint of a society that has finally run out of new ideas?
*Edit: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger. I'll use it to literally burn the