Hollywood is in trouble to use AI to modulate the most recent voices and scandal implies Netflix’s decision to recreate the voice of the murderous travel vlogger Gabby Petito.
The disappearance of Petito in the summer of 2021 pierced Americans. Unfolding in the context of the pandemic, the case has become viral on social networks, where tiktkers and youtubers constantly theorized and dissected the case. Finally, Petito’s body was found and her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, was accused of her murder. Laundrie took place and finally committed suicide. Now Netflix has predictable a flashy documentary on the case predictably. To give life to the morbid story, the filmmakers behind American murder: Gabby Petito—A new three -part document series – has decided to use an AI program to recreate Petito’s voice so that she can read her own newspaper entries. Even more predictable, people have been brought together.
“”So in the Netflix documentary, they read Chatter Little“Journal SMS” S texts using “voice Leisure technology ‘ voice And I don’t think it’s okay, ” A user x wrote. “It’s very bizarre – even disrespectful perhaps – and really off -putting.”
“The voice ai gabby petito in the new documentary ?????? Deeply uncomfortable why would they do this, ” Another display.
“Lol this doc gabby little uses an AI to recreate his voice by reading his own newspaper What a fucking creative decision monstrous”, yet another user poster.
The filmmakers defended their decision to use the AI to recreate the voice of a dead girl, noting that they obtained permission from the Petito family to do so. “We contacted the family to obtain their blessing, then we worked with diligence to represent it in the way it was written,” said executive producer Michael Gasparro told us every week. “It allowed you to hear it through his own words.” Gasparro also said that AI was a way to revive the deceased. “We thought it was really important to give life to this,” he said. “In the end, we wanted to tell the story as much as possible through Gabby. It’s his story.
Filmmakers can have a point. After all, this is not the first time that a documentary has done something like that. The actors of the voice tell all the time the written words of the historical figures. However, there is a slight difference in this case. It turns out that when the subject of your documentary is a recently murdered young woman, and the voiceover is automatically generated by a strange Valley type algorithm, the impact is much more frightening.
The team behind the film nominated at the Oscars, The Brutalist, recently entered hot water after being revealed that production had used AI to make the Hungarian accents of the actors more precise. The Academy will now plan to establish new disclosure rules for the use of AI in films to stem future controversies.
