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[A new documentary about Anthony Bourdain
has ignited a debate, after film-makers revealed they had used an AI simulation of the late chef's voice. Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain was narrated using archive material supplemented by a synthetic voice reading short extracts of writing by Mr Bourdain, who died in 2018. Director Morgan Neville called it a modern storytelling technique. But some critics questioned whether it was ethical. Mr Neville said that the synthetic voice was created by feeding more than 10 hours of Mr Bourdain's voice into a machine-learning system. "There were a few sentences that [Bourdain] wrote that he never spoke aloud," he told Variety. So the computerised voice was used to bring his writing to life. He said the technique was used in the film with the support of Mr Bourdain's estate and literary agent. Mr Bourdain, who took his own life in 2018, was one of America's best-known celebrity chefs, presenting food and travel programmes and writing a number of best-selling books. In 2016, he shared a $6 (£4.30) meal with Barack Obama in a small Hanoi restaurant when the then-US president visited Vietnam.]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57842514 AI simulation of this Dead chef has got many upset. Last edited by arista; 19-07-2021 at 03:54 AM. |
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Well it's definitely an unusual thing to do.
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