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Francesca Rudkin: Love it or hate it, AI is going to be part of our lives · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Right, There's a lot going on in the world this week,
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  Speaker 1: which is a bit of an understatement, isn't it. This Friday,
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  Speaker 1: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences provide some
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  Speaker 1: lighthearted relief from the world's challenges by announcing the Oscar
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  Speaker 1: nominees for the twenty twenty five Academy Awards. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: nominees were due to be announced on January eighteen, then
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  Speaker 1: January twenty, before being delayed again, giving those impacted by
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  Speaker 1: the fires still raging in southern California more time to vote.
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  Speaker 1: But as filmmakers, actors, and the masterful crafts people responsible
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  Speaker 1: for making some of the best films of the year
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  Speaker 1: wait patiently to see whether they will get the nomination
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  Speaker 1: nod from their peers, a prickly conversation is brewing about AI.
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  Speaker 1: The latest controversy in film was around the use of
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  Speaker 1: AI and two potential nominees, The Brutalist and Amelia Peris,
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  Speaker 1: which both won big at the Golden Globes. These two
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  Speaker 1: Oscar front runners are dealing with the backlash after it
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  Speaker 1: was revealed they use voice cloning to enhance actors' performances.
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  Speaker 1: So in The Brutalist, Adrian Brody Felicity Jones play Jewish
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  Speaker 1: Hungarians who survived the Nazi camps and escaped to the US.
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  Speaker 1: The actor is spent two months working with a dialect
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  Speaker 1: coach to perfect their accents, but the filmmakers wanted their
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  Speaker 1: Hungarian to sound perfect, so added individual sounds and letters
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  Speaker 1: to both Brody and Jones's Hungarian language dialogue to perfect it.
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  Speaker 1: This has caused quite an uproar, and the brutalist director
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  Speaker 1: Brady Corbett was forced to issue a statement to Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: Trade Publication saying Adrian and Felicity's performance is completely their own,
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  Speaker 1: who went on to say the aim was to preserve
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  Speaker 1: the authenticity of Adrian and Felicity's performance in another language,
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  Speaker 1: not to replace or alter them, and done with the
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  Speaker 1: utmost respect for the craft. Their performances in this film,
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  Speaker 1: which I have seen, are extraordinary. The film is stunning, ambitious, audacious,
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  Speaker 1: and if a tool was used to tweak their Hungarian
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  Speaker 1: along the way, well, Hungarians are probably grateful with Amelia Pairs.
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  Speaker 1: It has emerged a cloning was used to an hants
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  Speaker 1: the singing voice of Amelia Perez's Carla Sophia Garson to
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  Speaker 1: increase the range of Garson's vocal register. Their singing was
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  Speaker 1: then blended with that of Camille, the French pop star
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  Speaker 1: who co wrote the film's score. People are upset really
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  Speaker 1: in the film Elvis Austin Butler's voices mixed with Elvis's.
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  Speaker 1: Marilyn Monroe did not hit her own high notes. Zac
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  Speaker 1: Efron has a ghost singer in high school Musical films
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  Speaker 1: have been tricking us for years, but suddenly because it's AI,
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  Speaker 1: everyone is up in arms about it. And it's not
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  Speaker 1: just correcting accents and singing voices. Where AI is used,
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  Speaker 1: it's already embedded in everything from production to writing to
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  Speaker 1: visual effects. Just don't expect anyone to shout it from
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  Speaker 1: the rooftops. Some say it's more of a pr problem
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  Speaker 1: than a tech problem, and that it's just another tool
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  Speaker 1: like CGI to be used to make better films. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: there are concerns about the prolific use of AI. No
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  Speaker 1: one wants to see whole sectors of the industry replaced,
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  Speaker 1: such as writers or graphic artists or background it's often
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  Speaker 1: the lowest paid on the call sheet who suffer. So
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  Speaker 1: it is up to the industry to draw the line
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  Speaker 1: and work towards safeguards and regulation so the industry can
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  Speaker 1: find a way to use AI for good and love
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  Speaker 1: or hate it. AI is going to be part of
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  Speaker 1: our lives in ways we can already see, in ways
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  Speaker 1: we can't imagine. Just don't let the controversy ruin a
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  Speaker 1: good film for you. For more from Early Edition with
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