Adrien Brody and "The Brutalist" filmmakers are receiving backlash online for enhancing the actor's accent and the movie's architecture with AI.
Oscars best picture frontrunner "The Brutalist" used AI to improve Adrien Brody's accent. Director Brady Corbet responded to the backlash.
"Adrien and Felicity’s performances are completely their own," says Corbet, after details emerged on how AI technology was used in the editing of the actors' scenes spoken in Hungarian.
When movie editor Dávid Jancsó admitted that he had used AI to change some elements of actors’ voices in “The Brutalist,” he sparked an impassioned online debate about the impact of technology on the arts.
Brady Corbet's critically claimed film elicited backlash after the editor said that artificial intelligence had been used.
The Brutalist caused a stir on social media after the Adrien Brody film's use of AI was revealed, calling for an Oscars snub.
The A24 film is under fire after editor Dávid Jancsó revealed an AI tool was used to perfect the actors' Hungarian dialect.
The use of artificial intelligence in the Oscar-tipped epic has launched a fresh debate over its applications in the film industry
The AI tools in question come from the Ukranian company Respeecher. Corbet told The Hollywood Reporter that they only used the tools in post-production to enhance
Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’s Hungarian dialogue in The Brutalist was enhanced using AI tools, according to the film’s editor Dávid Jancsó.
Movies like The Brutalist and Emilia Perez feature AI voice cloning performances that should disqualify them from the Oscars.