How would you like to get tips directly from Agatha Christie?

[MsAmerica]

I can't decide if this is mostly amusing or mostly creepy.

Agatha Christie, Who Died in 1976, Will See You in Class
Agatha Christie is dead. But Agatha Christie also just started teaching a writing class.
“I must confess,” she says, in a cut-glass English accent, “that this is all rather new to me.”
The literary legend, who died in 1976, has been tapped to teach a course with BBC Maestro, an online lecture series similar to Master Class. Christie, alongside dozens of other experts, is there for any aspiring writer with 79 pounds (about $105) to spare.
She has been reanimated with the help of a team of academic researchers — who wrote a script using her writings and archival interviews — and a “digital prosthetic” made with artificial intelligence and then fitted over a real actor’s performance.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/world/europe/agatha-christie-ai-class-bbc.html

I find the whole thing creepy tbh.

Agree, creepy and meaningless.

So if it’s her own writings, which must be available somewhere, why do they need to animate them? Presumably one could search for, and find, that content and use it for writing prompts without paring the money? And without the creepy reanimating and fake interpretation of what she said or meant.

to a youtube video showing how they did the AI - long story short, it's scripted, designed and acted by humans, but they make a deep fake to make the face and the voice match. I was kind of hoping it would be all done by a hilarious AI prompt, but alas, real people were highly involved.