The Brutalist and Emilia Perez’s voice-cloning controversies make AI the new awards season battleground | Oscars
TThe use of artificial intelligence could become a fierce battleground during film awards season, as at least two major contenders have been revealed to be using voice reproduction to enhance actors’ performances.
In an interview with motion picture technology publication Red Shark NewsThe Brutalist’s editor, David Jancso, said that in an attempt to create Hungarian dialogue so perfect “that even the locals wouldn’t notice a difference,” Jancso inserted the voices of lead actors Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones into the AI software, in addition to his own.
In the movieBrody plays Hungarian Jewish architect Laszlo Toth, who immigrated to the United States after World War II, and Jones is his wife, Erzsébet. Jancso, a Hungarian speaker, said that while Brody’s mother was an immigrant from Hungary in real life, “rehearsing” and re-recording via ADR (automated dialogue replacement) with both the original and replacement actors “didn’t work.” .
Janso said he then used an artificial intelligence tool developed by Respeecher, a Ukraine-based company that was previously involved in the attack. “Reproduction” of James Earl Jones’ voice For the TV series Obi-Wan KenobiTo add individual sounds and letters to the Hungarian language dialogue between Brody and Jones. “Most of their Hungarian dialogue has a part of me speaking in there. We were very careful to keep their performance in check. “It’s basically just replacing letters here and there… We did so much dialogue in Hungarian that we really needed to speed up the process otherwise we would still be stuck in post.”
On Monday, in response to the backlash, The Brutalist director Brady Corbett issued a statement to Various Hollywood crafts.
“Adrian and Felicity’s performances are completely their own,” he said. “They worked for several months with dialect coach Tanera Marshall to perfect their accents. Respeecher’s innovative technology was only used in editing Hungarian language dialogue, specifically to improve some vowels and letters for accuracy. The English language was not changed.
“This was a manual process, undertaken by our audio team and the dispatcher in post-production. The goal was to maintain the authenticity of Adrian and Felicity’s performances in another language, not replace or change them, with the utmost respect for the craft.”
It also turns out that AI cloning has been used to improve the singing voice Emilia PerezCarla Sofia Gascón, in the gangster musical directed by Jacques Audiard. In an interview recorded in May at the Cannes Film FestivalThe film’s re-recording mixer Cyril Holtz said it was necessary to increase the range of Gascon’s vocal recording and that the production used Respeecher to mix their vocals with those of Camille, the French pop star who co-wrote the film’s score.
On the contrary HereticThe horror film, starring Hugh Grant, took a radical anti-AI stance, with its ending including the message: “No generative AI was used in the making of this film.”
The recent actors’ and writers’ strike was called at least in part because of the threat artificial intelligence poses to large parts of the film, television, and video game industries, including settlements. “Guardrails” against using AI to create scripts. Video game actors strike To imitate their voices Still going.
Film director Paul Schrader It was revealed in a Facebook post He has also been experimenting with artificial intelligence, using ChatGPT to generate film ideas for major auteurs, including Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, Ingmar Bergman and himself. “Every idea that ChatGPT came up with (in a few seconds) was good. Original. And it worked. Why should writers sit for months searching for a good idea when AI can deliver it in seconds? Instead of that being an endorsement,” he added in his I’m Awesome write-up. For artificial intelligence, Schrader told The Guardian: “People mistakenly believe that AI is a technological advance as a technological advance. [the] Cars while it is actually a virus driven by a hyperbolic curve.
With Hollywood’s current mood surrounding artificial intelligence, it’s difficult to estimate what impact these revelations about the use of the technology might have on the current situation. Oscars His final nominations are scheduled to be announced on January 23. Brody is now a strong contender for Best Actor, having won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama, while Gascón looks likely to be the first trans actor to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar.
