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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Nick Buckley

Ethically dubious or a creative gift? How artists are grappling with AI in their work

Two large screens hang side by side in a darkened gallery, each with the same image of Cate Blanchett at a lectern.
Artist Xanthe Dobbie used the text-to-speech platform PlayHT to generate a version of Cate Blanchett’s voice for their video FutureSex/Love Sounds (2024). Photograph: Jacquie Manning/UTS Gallery

Cate Blanchett – beloved thespian, film star and refugee advocate – is standing at a lectern addressing the European Union parliament. “The future is now,” she says, authoritatively. So far, so normal, until: “But where the fuck are the sex robots?”

The footage is from a 2023 address that Blanchett actually gave – but the rest has been made up.

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