New Delhi, July 3 -- Six of Hollywood's most recognizable faces appeared this week in a video they never agreed to make.

turning off the news, saying prayers, and drinking Diet Coke.

Representatives for the actors had not responded to requests for comment by the time The Hollywood Reporter published its account of the incident.

The video carries the technical signatures of AI synthesis: expressions calibrated past the natural range of human movement, audio-visual correspondence that holds but carries the compressed quality of generated media, lighting that sits slightly outside the logic of physical space. But the significance is not in the technical execution. It is in what the technology was used for: a sitting head of government dep...