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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Andrew Pulver

The Brutalist and Emilia Perez’s voice-cloning controversies make AI the new awards season battleground

‘We were very careful about keeping their performances’ … Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in The Brutalist.
‘We were very careful about keeping their performances’ … Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in The Brutalist. Photograph: Courtesy: Venice Film festival

The use of artificial intelligence could become a ferocious battleground during movie awards season, as at least two major contenders were revealed to have used voice-cloning to enhance actors’ performances.

In an interview with moving-image tech publication Red Shark News, The Brutalist editor Dávid Jancsó said that, in an effort to create Hungarian dialogue so perfect “that not even locals will spot any difference”, Jancsó fed lead actors Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’s voices into AI software, as well as his own.

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