It shows either serious tone-deafness or an extremely sardonic sense of humor for a studio/corporation-complex to cast a replica of a dead actor as the product of a villainous "corporate maker of androids and synthetics."
(Cf. “Toy Story" dedicating CGI and a wealth of shiny new plastic tie-in products to mourn good-old fashioned touched-by-human-hands playthings.)
Spiritualism flourished on the technophilic-secularized-capitalist plateau of late nineteenth-century Anglo-American culture, and the messages delivered by that AI-VR resemble those typically received through a medium -- a software-aided upgrade to the accuracy of ectoplasmic effigies and mimicked speech. For all my skepticism about Chat…